Re: Spamhaus Ignores U.S. Court?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:29:31 PDT, Blue Boar said:
> Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> > If a stanford law professor says you are innocent, and the DMCA keeps
> > you in jail, I would call that definitive proof that cash runs our
> > legal system.
>
> Well, It's a little worse than that.  Adobe (under public pressure) 
> withdrew their complaint.  The US Government proceeded with their case, 
> with no victim.

The single worst part of that whole thing was that it set a precident that
ROT-13 was considered an "effective" protection device.  (And yes, 17 USC 2511
specifically addresses "bypassing an effective copy protection device").

Now you know why companies don't give a flying fuck in a rolling donut that
the DRM they ship is total crap bypassable with a green magic marker - they
can just go after you for using the green magic marker to bypass their crap.

(And yes, I know Skylarov didn't actually set a cite-able legal precident,
but it *did* set a de-facto "rot-13 is good enough to hang a legal case on"
precident when it didn't get laughed out of the courtroom...)

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