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To: John Rieman who wrote (22779)	9/19/1997 10:03:00 PM
From: BillyG	of 50808

I like the Wired anti-Divx article......... wired.com "The Divx system seems to negate fair use completely," said online copyright and privacy scholar Julie E. Cohen, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. "It's clear that users won't be given the opportunity to negotiate regarding the surrender of their fair use rights. Consumers who nonetheless choose to buy Divx systems for the convenience they offer will be setting a dangerous precedent, since sales that are strong enough will allow the vendor to argue that contracting around fair use is acceptable to the public." Cohen was equally troubled by the implications of Divx for viewer privacy, acknowledging that there is no way for viewers to maintain anonymity with respect to the Divx provider/system operator. She offers a possible solution: hack it. "I have argued that both copyright and First Amendment policies support a right to hack so-called "trusted systems" in self-defense in order to preserve one's right of fair use and maintain anonymity with respect to information providers," she said. "Divx appears to be a good example of the sort of situation to which my argument would apply." Richard Stallman, inventor of copyleft, a legal hack that guarantees free use of digital information for all, exposes the line between a work and its audience. "Controlling a work really means controlling everyone who uses it, obstructing their daily lives," he said. "Divx reveals the obstructionist spirit usually hidden at the root of the copyright system."

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