3 Copyright Lawsuits Test Limits of New Digital Media

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From: Dan Kohn (dan@teledesic.com)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 02:57:53 PST

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/biztech/articles/24onli.html

This is a good overview article describing the current intellectual property
battlefield. Hidden within, however, is a sentence that shows how things
will turn out in the end: "The studios say the software, written by a
Norwegian teenager, is a piracy tool."

When a Norwegian teenager on the Internet can hack something (like the
pathetic DVD copy protection scheme), no US-based law is going to stop them.

                - dan 

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