On 8/7/07, Jakob Eriksson jakob@vmlinux.org wrote:
James Hawkins wrote:
On 8/5/07, Jakob Eriksson jakob@vmlinux.org wrote:
DMCA Reverse engineering exemption:
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:
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.'