David Honig wrote:
At 03:02 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
David Honig <honig@sprynet.com> wrote:
do a cryptographic authentication procedure with the drive. Code to do this is covered under "circumvention device" in the DMCA according to the 2600-MPAA case.
Not if you have lawfully paid for the content.
As read by the MPAA, the DMCA enable them to sell you a locked house and then drag you to court if you try to pick the lock.
If you don't do this authentication, the drives I have worked with will just spit out zeros instead of the real data.
If a cartridge doesn't have (C) SEGA in it, it won't play... ergo, (C) SEGA is not protected.
Didn't the original IBM BIOS use this trick. e.g, look for a 'copyright ibm' string in the BIOS image? -- LarsG