Interesting warning regarding filesharing

[Marcus Brubaker]

True, but hope you never have to get routed through the US on a foreign
trip or you're screwed.  See the case of the Russian guy who got
arrested under the DMCA when he went to the US for a conference.  He
reverse engineered Adobe's e-Book format to make it accessible for blind
people.

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 22:30, Tom Legrady wrote:
> But DMCA is not a Canadian law, it is a foreign statute.
> 
> In France you are not allowed to sell Nazi paraphenalia. Canada ignores 
> French law.
> 
> In the US,  you are bound by the DMCA. In Canada, neither DMCA nor 
> UnAmerican activities are against the law.
> 
> rh wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:40:19 -0500
> >Tom Legrady <legrady-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Not with the DMCA they can't. Is that a federal law or a provincial
> >>law?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Any copyright infringement that I have had dealings with are Federal
> >charges.
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