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Re: password-cracking by journalists...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (reusch)
Wed Jan 23 10:36:57 2002
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:16:56 -0500
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At 09:00 PM 1/22/02 -0500, R. Hirschfeld wrote:
>> From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:55:53 -0500
>
>> The inclusion of the word 'effectively' presumes the existance of
>> 'ineffective' technological measures, which it would be no crime
>> to circumvent. Where, then, is the distinction?
>
>17.1201 actually contains a definition:
>
>(B) a technological measure ''effectively controls access to a
> work'' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation,
> requires the application of information, or a process or a
> treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain
> access to the work.
>
>I confess that I can't tell whether this implies that everything is
>effective or that nothing is.
Below are a few attempts to define "ineffectiveness" based on an even number
of negations inserted into the above language. While amusing, it's fruitless.
Any legislation that defines reality is schizophrenic.
Regards,
Michael
a technological measure does not effectively control access to a
work if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation,
does not require the application of information, or a process or a
treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain
access to the work.
a technological measure does not effectively control access to a
work if the measure, in an extraordinary course of its operation,
requires the application of information, or a process or a
treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain
access to the work.
a technological measure does not effectively control access to a
work if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation,
requires the application of information, or a process or a
treatment, without the authority of the copyright owner, to gain
access to the work. (My favorite!)
a technological measure does not effectively control access to a
work if the measure, in an extraordinary course of its operation,
does not require the application of information, or a process or a
treatment, without the authority of the copyright owner, to gain
access to the work.
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