8 Aug
2001
8 Aug
'01
8:56 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:06:05AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
(Ads could be tied-in to the content, with some light crypto or copright protection. A "circumvention" of this liight crypto could be a DMCA violation. I would not be surprised to see this already impicated in the DVD cases: that 5 minute period of trailors that cannot be fast-forwarded past...it's probably a violation of the DMCA to build devices which circumvent the copyright holder's plans and intents.)
This came up in the DeCSS trial. To the judge, circumvention was circumvention. -Declan