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>I'm going to start selling shirts that say "Today I Broke The DMCA". That actually happened with DeCSS. Many many years ago, in an internet far far away, som
by s_q_b 10y ago
>I'm going to start selling shirts that say "Today I Broke The DMCA".
That actually happened with DeCSS.
Many many years ago, in an internet far far away, some clever hackers determined how to decrypt DRM-protected DVDs. They even built a decryption program and named it DeCSS. Several court cases followed, usually based upon WIPO CC, the treaty that the DMCA implements.
In DVD CCA v. Bunner, a California court issued a preliminary injunction against a website owner for hosting DeCSS. As an entirely predictable result, the internet responded by disseminating it far and wide.
Some people even put it on t-shirts: http://www.design-reuse.com/news_img/20080804_1.gif http://www.design-reuse.com/news_img/20080804_1.gif
- userbinator 10y agoA clear example of the Streisand effect in action. More recently, this happened with the decryption key that starts with 09 F9...
- s_q_b 10y agoI'm trying to conceive of a t-shirt that would, merely by reading it, cause the reader to violate a copyright law. That one's difficult. Maybe one with a custom EULA, "By talking to me you acknowledge that you are agreeing to these terms. Should you not agree, say nothing further."
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- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWith facial recognition, we could make a t-shirt that makes you violats the DMCA: every time a face is detected looking at the shirt, it breaks some sort of "digital lock." I'm thinking we have it decode an ISO of a DVD, but it could be almost anything.
- otakucode 10y agoIt could be literally anything. The lawsuit by RealNetworks against Streambox over the Streambox VCR software established as legal precedent that one single bit, undocumented, is adequate to qualify as a "copyright control mechanism" and that if you ignore that bit, whose purpose you need not even be capable of knowing, you have circumvented it and broken federal law. (There is some sweet irony in the fact that the DMCA, which the Realnetworks v Streambox suit first established the legitimacy of in the courts (due solely to Streambox running out of money - they won every case until they could not afford to respond to an appeal, handing Realnetworks a default judgement) was later used against Realnetworks when they enabled their users to backup DVD movies.)
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoreally? jeez. That's even worse. And probably enough to put about half of HN into prison.
- jlgaddis 10y ago"You are committing a crime right now": http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/11/you-are-committing-crime-right-now.html http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/11/you-are-committing-crime-r...