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Subject: 
Re: New Bill expands the DMCA
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:25:30 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDM.antispamORG
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Jeff Stembel <jeff.stembel@noaa.gov> wrote:
> It will force manufacturers to place copy protection on all electronic devices
> that deal with digital media.  In addition, this supercedes Fair Use, and

What's worse, "digital devices" means software and hardware. So open source
operating systems would be illegal.


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Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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