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Agree with this. The DMCA makes stuff like this illegal. Recall that when CD copy protection was starting to be deployed, you could negate it with a black mar
by RajT88 3y ago
Agree with this. The DMCA makes stuff like this illegal.
Recall that when CD copy protection was starting to be deployed, you could negate it with a black marker. The DMCA then made black markers illegal, because it bans "tools which may be used to circumvent copyright" as well as the "circumvention of copy protection measures". (Not that anyone tried to enforce it, but the letter of the law was pretty clear that black markers were then illegal to possess)
The DMCA should be amended or revoked to make these shenanigans no longer enforceable.
- jrmg 3y agoBlack markers are/were very obviously not illegal. The law doesn’t work like code, it’s filtered by humans. No court would ever come to the conclusion that something as mundane as black markers are illegal to possess.
- RajT88 3y agoYou almost understood the point. The DMCA is a problem because putting copy protection on (for example) heated seats is a similar level of silliness to outlawing black markers.
- belltaco 3y ago> but the letter of the law was pretty clear that black markers were then illegal to possess That is wrong. It's legal to possess a hammer but illegal to bash someone on the head with one. It was legal to possess a black marker and arguably illegal to use it to circumvent copy protection.
- esotericimpl 3y ago[dead]