Re: Wine disassembly and reverse engineering rules.

[Jesse Allen]

On 8/7/07, Jakob Eriksson <jakob(a)vmlinux.org> wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > On 8/5/07, Jakob Eriksson <jakob(a)vmlinux.org> wrote:
> > > DMCA Reverse engineering exemption:
> > >
> > > http://www.chillingeffects.org/reverse/faq.cgi#QID210
> > > From the article:
> >
> > "The reverse engineer is required to ask permission first, however."
> >
> > ...good luck with that.
>
> It is strange that the say that, because I can not find anything about
> asking permission in the actual law text:
>
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html#f

Here I think: 1201a, 3b.

'a technological measure ''effectively controls access to a work'' if
the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the
application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the
authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.'