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  • From: "Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Reuters breaking the (DMCA) law!
  • Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:01:18 -0400


Reuters has been making money by selling information on how to
cincurvent copy-proof technology.

"Under the [DMCA] law's sections 1201.2(a) and (c), it's illegal to
"manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise
traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part
thereof" that is primarily designed to circumvent a copy protection.
That's in part (a), and Reuters and its customers might be able to
argue that the story wasn't "primarily" designed for that purpose.

There's no question that Reuters marketed the story. Selling stories to
its customers is the way it makes money, and several copyright lawyers
suggest the "bad intent" language of those sections can easily apply to
news stories. Reuters would have to be massively naïve to believe that
hundreds of music-sharing fans around the wouldn't test the magic
marker technique on Sony CDs as soon as they read the story.

Read the Reuters description: "Monday, Reuters obtained an ordinary copy
of Celine Dion's newest release 'A New Day Has Come,' which comes
embedded with Sony's Key2Audio' technology. After an initial attempt to
play the disc on a PC resulted in failure, the edge of the shiny side
of the disc was blackened out with a felt tip marker. The second
attempt with the marked-up CD played and copied to the hard drive
without a hitch."

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/22/1740256.shtml?tid=4


God bless them, 'cause the might of the law will punish them for telling
the truth.


Salut,
Josep
--
Josep Lluis Guallar-Esteve




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