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Full Disclosure: Re: Shift key breaks CD copy locks

Re: Shift key breaks CD copy locks

From: Austin Godber <godber_at_uberhip.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:37:47 -0700

Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
> That's awesome man...I couldn't have said it better. Censorship laws
> are very dangerous because they can be selectively enforced by law
> enforcement with the benefit of confusing a jury.
>
> If you wanted to take the ATF's approach, it's not just having a
> keyboard that is breaking the law, it's the combination of having a
> keyboard AND the Windows operating system installed....since the
> protection doesn't work on the UNIX operating system you will be safe if
> you erase your hard drive and install Linux.

Or even scarier ... consider a different point of view ... NOT having windows
installed circumvents the copy protection mechanism. Thus inserting the CD into
a machine with a non windows OS violates the DMCA.

Austin

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