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

[Adam Williams]

>> This is just so pathetic!
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3180212.stm
>Telling people how to disable Window's autorun feature is a violation of
>the DMCA?  

Yep, because your disabling a possible avenue for copyright protection.

>I bet that is documented on microsoft.com somewhere, so that
>means that M$ should be sued too!

Holding my breath.....

>Personally I think the guy should sue the CD maker because they are
>installing anti-copying software on his computer without his permission!

Er?  Read the tiny print on the outside of that package lately? 

You bought that $11.99 CD - they now own your a$$.  Or at least that is 
what their lawyers will say until there is a judge nearby,  then they seem 
to get a touch more conciliatory.  Over-wording of license agreements, 
contracts, etc... is standard practice;  if push comes to shove most 
judges "thin the woods" of unreasonable or absurd clauses.