Re: "Engineer for Haloid Corp. arrested for producing circumvention device"

2001-07-22 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Tim May wrote: > Large corporations like nothing more than having a powerful central > government freeze the status quo. > And big companies love it when little competitors are frozen out. > The DCMA is just another way to freeze out innovation. Those who try So much f

Re: "Engineer for Haloid Corp. arrested for producing circumvention device"

2001-07-21 Thread Tim May
At 10:37 PM -0400 7/21/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: >On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:46:27PM -0700, Tim May wrote: >> Had the DCMA been in effect in the 1950s, the Xerox Corporation and >> its execs and engineers probably would have faced charges for >> producing a "circumvention device" for enabling

Re: "Engineer for Haloid Corp. arrested for producing circumvention device"

2001-07-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:46:27PM -0700, Tim May wrote: > Had the DCMA been in effect in the 1950s, the Xerox Corporation and > its execs and engineers probably would have faced charges for > producing a "circumvention device" for enabling copyright violators. > What, really, is the difference

Re: "Engineer for Haloid Corp. arrested for producing circumvention device"

2001-07-21 Thread David Honig
At 06:46 PM 7/21/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: >Had the DCMA been in effect in the 1950s, the Xerox Corporation and >its execs and engineers probably would have faced charges for >producing a "circumvention device" for enabling copyright violators. >What, really, is the difference between a Xerox ma