Re: [colorforth] /. and the new bios

[Albert van der Horst <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Oninoshiko wrote:

> > > I thought it was illegal to descramble a commercial satellite
> > > broadcast.
> >
> > The act of descrambling is not in itself illegal.  Watching the
> > descrambled content, however, technically is.  Assuming you can
> > descramble it to begin with.
> >
>
> actually under the DMCA descrambling is "copyright protection
> circumvention" and therefore illegal. indeed the device to do the
> descrambling is a "copyright circumvention device" and therefore illegal
> to possess, use, sell, etc.

The Dutch law has a similar clause. I borrowed a law book from a friend.
(She is a Socialist Party member. The SP is, as a party, officially
opposed to software patents. No need to lobby individual members.
Got 2 of the 27 Dutch seats in the euro parliament.)
However it states "designed to facilitate descrambling".
A good lawyer could construe my reverse engineering tools as general
purpose, notwithstanding trivial plug ins on Warez state.

> its not a law that is part of the FCC's juristiction, and it quite recent
> (indeed im not shure the courts are done figuring it out yet)

We are going to deconstruct those laws.

>
> Oninoshiko
>
>  "A Pax, a pax, a pax upon thee"
>
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