SuSE 9.1 Personal not good for multimedia?

[Marcus Brubaker]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:50, Henry Spencer wrote:
> Note that nothing in this restricts reverse engineering to obtain the
> information.

Except the DMCA style legislation in other countries (i.e. Australia is
pretty bad if I recall).

> >   The other half is that under the DMCA, it is illegal to break protection
> > mechanisms...
> 
> Now *this* is a real legal issue... in the US, and only in the US.

Real legal issue: yes.  Only in the US: not really.  The US govt is
working hard at requiring trade partners to enact DMCA type legislation
to protect the (lucrative) US copyright industries.  Many smaller (and
some larger) countries have, at least formally, consented though many
lack the interest and/or ability to enforce it.

Regards,
-- 
Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>

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