"Engineer for Haloid Corp. arrested for producing circumvention device"
David Honig
honig at sprynet.com
Sat Jul 21 19:15:59 PDT 2001
At 06:46 PM 7/21/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>Had the DCMA been in effect in the 1950s, the Xerox Corporation and
>its execs and engineers probably would have faced charges for
>producing a "circumvention device" for enabling copyright violators.
>What, really, is the difference between a Xerox machine and something
>that allows copies of electronic text?
>
>(Both have alternate uses besides pirating. Backups, for example.)
(Had the DCMA existed earlier:)
Some publisher would have jailed the dude who noticed a property of
selenium films exposed to light and applied it to copying documents.
Even if he invented it in a foreign country.
Reality is certainly more twisted than fiction.
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