[42544] in Cypherpunks
Re: S. 1284 To Amend (C) Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Loewenstern)
Mon Oct 30 19:56:44 1995
From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 95 16:58:14 -0600
To: "Tom Bell" <BELL@odo.law.udayton.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
> S. 1284, s1201: "No person shall import, manufacture or distribute
> any device, product, or component incorporated into a device or
> product, or offer or perform any service, the primary purpose or
> effect of which is to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or otherwise
> circumvent, without the authority of the copyright owner or the
> law, any process, treatement, mechanism or system which prevents
> or inhibits the violation of any of the exclusive rights of the
> copyright owner under section 106."
IANAL, but I thought these types of laws were already tested and deemed
unconstitutional in cases involving video-tape copying boxes, dual video
cassette dubbing decks, SCMS 'scrubbers', etc...
andrew
