Re: DMCA, cookies ?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 01/22/03 

From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 22 Jan 2003 21:39:55 GMT

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) writes:

]Odd thought of the day: in the USA, to what extent would the DMCA
](Digital Millenium Copyright Act) disallow someone from
]creating their own "cookies" to send back to sites?

]i.e., If site X wants to set a cookie, and I were in the USA
]and I extracted the cookie name and created a cookie with that
]name but -different- contents, then what would the DMCA have to
]say about that?

Nothing. DCMA talks about instituting schemes whose purpose is copyright
protection. cookies are not a copyright protection scheme.