Re: Advertisements on Web Pages

[Declan McCullagh]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:06:05AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> (Ads could be tied-in to the content, with some light crypto or copright 
> protection. A "circumvention" of this liight crypto could be a DMCA 
> violation. I would not be surprised to see this already impicated in the 
> DVD cases: that 5 minute period of trailors that cannot be 
> fast-forwarded past...it's probably a violation of the DMCA to build 
> devices which circumvent the copyright holder's plans and intents.)

This came up in the DeCSS trial. To the judge, circumvention was
circumvention.

-Declan