Re: Microsoft finally acknowledges the security drumbeats

From: Jeffrey Siegal (jbs@quiotix.com)
Date: 02/13/02 

From: Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:55:30 -0800

spp@cs.berkeley.edu wrote:
> I understand that if you buy for example a DVD player, you are
> supposedly agreeing not to reverse engineer it, or even to tap
> off internal signals so as to listen and view discs.

I'm not sure you're *agreeing* to any such thing, but there is a law
that prohibits you from doing things like that (or anythign else) if
they constitute circumvention of an access control mechanism. So you
don't have to *agree* to it; the law applies to you regardless.

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