Pirates and Free TV

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JustMe (nobody@nowhere.com) wrote:
> That is NOT true. The DMCA strictly forbids copying Anything that is copy
> protected EVEN for personal use. It superseeds the fair use copying act.

Even if there is no circumvention of the security technology?

> Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., author of the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act

> The new bill amends the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (search) of 1998,
> which allowed copyright holders to put digital locks on their work

Was that previously illegal?

> and makes
> it illegal to break those locks.

How did Boucher vote on the DCMA in 1998?

> "Anything that allows you to decrypt the DVD would not be a legal product,"
> said MPAA spokesman Rich Taylor.

So if Congress changes the law to make it legal, it would remain illegal.

-- Spud <http://www.rev.net/~aloe/freedom>