Kelly Lynn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> UCITA does NOT forbid reverse engineering. This is a common myth.
> What UCITA does is make enforceable covenants that may prohibit,
> amongst other things, reverse engineering. It's arguable that such
> covenants are _already_ enforceable.
I'm not familiar enough with UCITA to argue that. But the injunctions
against distributing DeCSS DVD decoding software, and the jail time
that the author spent, indicates quite sufficiently to me that there
are big businesses quite willing to pay for closed systems.
Bob
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