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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.ORGnospam
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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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