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[Declan McCullagh]

Right, it's not certain. But this is a semantically null statement:
Unless you have a mole in the court, that could be said about any
case.

It's true that the appeals court asked some questions that were widely
interpreted as being favorable in a followup document, but their
actual questions askd during oral arguments were very much pro-MPAA.
It's true that they could be playing devil's advocate, but the queries
seemed to be genuine conviction, not intellectual gamesmanship.

-Declan


On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:14:53PM +0200, Lars Gaarden wrote:
> Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:53:38AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
> > 
> >>At 07:30 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
> >>
> >>>The DMCA, according to the court, clearly prevents the use of DeCSS
> >>>and css-auth, even in the case that it has a legitimate use, because
> >>>it circumvents the access control measures built into the DVD
> >>>standard.
> >>>
> >>We both know that's an incorrect ruling that will be reversed.
> > 
> > I covered the trial and the appeal, and I would not make such a strong
> > claim.
> 
> Seems like the appeals court is somewhat clued, as they asked more or
> less the correct questions. But as you say, it is nowhere near certain
> that the court will rule our way.
> 
> -- 
> LarsG