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Isn't there a reverse engineering portion of the DMCA? Or is it part of another ancronym'd legislative decision?
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On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 10:24, Grant Johnson wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>anselmi@americanisp.net wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>This is sadly funnny. bnetd is a free server that does what Blizzard's </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>battle.net server does. battle.net is a free multi-player server for Blizzard </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>games (Diablo, Starcraft, etc.)</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>The sad part is that Blizzard sent bnetd.org's ISP a letter which forced </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>removal of the site (see www.bnetd.org). Until the court battle is over, no </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>site. Hardly innocent until proven guilty.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>The funny part is that some people claim DMCA is necessary for us to comply </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>with WIPO treaties - my understanding is that European intellectual property </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>laws are more strict than ours. So here's a French guy offering to host the </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>site since he isn't bound by DMCA (at least until he comes over here to visit).</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>>Sigh, I need some coffee...</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I fail to see how this is a copyright issue. I may be nuts, but wasn't </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the DMCA supposed to be extra copyright protection for digital media? </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> If anything, this could be trademark infringement, but I see no </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>copyright issues here at all. Nothing was copied.</FONT></FONT></I>
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