CDR: DMCA Final Rule
We offer the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act Final Rule on Access Control Circumvention: http://cryptome.org/dmca102700.txt (149KB) An excerpt on why there will be no exemption for circumventing access to DVDs by tools such as DeCSS: http://cryptome.org/dmca-dvd.htm (15KB) The two exemptions granted: "1. Compilations Consisting of Lists of Websites Blocked by Filtering Software Applications 2. Literary Works, Including Computer Programs and Databases, Protected by Access Control Mechanisms That Fail to Permit Access Because of Malfunction, Damage or Obsoleteness." The copyright industry's arguments are often cited as grounds for minimal exemptions, as well as the power of the market to correct what Congress gave the industry. Specious.
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John Young