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RE: kinda OT: DMCA and reverse engineering of digitally secured files


  • To: "'Peter Zwag'" <peter1@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: kinda OT: DMCA and reverse engineering of digitally secured files
  • From: "Colin West" <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:07:56 -0600

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US laws are confined to US jurisdiction (areas). I don't know about
geographics and hacking :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Zwag [mailto:peter1@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 4:48 PM
To: cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: kinda OT: DMCA and reverse engineering of digitally secured
files

Does this apply only in the USA?
The serious hackers tend to be Russian
I am told you can commonly buy pirated software in the supermarket thier.

pz


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cwest" <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:13 AM
Subject: kinda OT: DMCA and reverse engineering of digitally secured files


> This is worth a read for those who care about their systems being reverse
> engineered, however, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) does seem
> to have some very serious implications for even building on other people's
> software.
> http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/
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