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To: steve harris who wrote (92181)	1/13/2003 4:23:50 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

steve: Keyword being DRM. It's actually interesting in this context that one European government (Denmark) has released its interpretation of the country's implementation of the European copyright act. Breaking encryption on a DVD is explicitly mentioned as being fully LEGAL. Circumventing regional controls is also explicitly listed in the LEGAL column. This goes nicely with the recent ruling in Norway where a "kid" (I think he's actually 19 or so now) was accused of writing a program that decrypted the DVD content, so that he could watch it on his Linux system. On the odd side, borrowing a CD from the library (or a friend) and then making a copy of it (for personal, non-commercial use) was also mentioned as being fully legal. One final thing about the new EULA (or EULA's in general) - I seem to recall a U.S. court ruling saying something like "clicking YES to an EULA does not make it legally binding". Anyone happen to know what the status is on this kind of thing? -fyo