Samba & DMCA

[David Collier-Brown]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> 
> The DMCA covers software that provides a copy protection function.  There's
> (currently) nothing in SMB that does this.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maksim Yakubenko [mailto:yak at jet.msk.su]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:41 AM
> To: samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: Re: Samba & DMCA
> 
> >         2) establishing  or interpreting portions of
> >            the protocol as "anti-circumvention"
> >            measures, and
> 
> I don't really understand this. That does this mean?

	Legal weaseling, actually.

	For example, any access control functionality
	is an anti-circumvention measure if it's
	used to prevent copying of particular programs.
	Therefor putting a chmod +w on the wire via
	telnet can be defeat of an anti-circumvention 
	measure (;-))

	And yes, the logic really does hold: my wife's
	legal-draftsman friends tell jokes about how
	ridiculous one can get and still be technically
	illegal (ask me about trying to force the
	Catholic church to put in condom dispensers some
	time).

--dave
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