[KLUG Advocacy] DMCA S U C K S ! ! !

John Bridleman advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:49:16 -0400


* Bruce Smith (bruce@armintl.com) wrote:
> Telling people how to disable Window's autorun feature is a violation of
> the DMCA?  I bet that is documented on microsoft.com somewhere, so that
> means that M$ should be sued too!
> 
> Personally I think the guy should sue the CD maker because they are
> installing anti-copying software on his computer without his permission!

There is a EULA on the CD so in effect they are getting permission.

Besides it looks like they are backing off:
 - http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/10/10/news/8797.shtml
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org