Wednesday, 5. December 2007
Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 5, 2007 at 1:27:00 PM CET
DMCA idiocy slideshow: explaining the DMCA to info-civilians
Wellington Grey has a great little slideshow about the idiocy of the DMCA's "anti-circumvention" measures, which prohibit breaking the digital locks off the stuff you own. In it, Grey recounts how offended he was when he bought a TomTom GPS that came with a CD in a sealed envelope, the seal on which read, "By breaking this seal, you agree to our contract," but the contract itself was on the CD, behind the seal. In other words, the CD said, "By breaking this seal, you agree to a bunch of secret stuff."
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