Re: Digital Millennium Copyright Act

> Gerald Cheves wrote:
> >If  presidential candidate John Kerry were repeal the Digital 
> >Millennium Copyright Act and allow users to make back-up copies of 
> >software, would that have implications for music sold on CDs?  If 
> >digitally recorded music is treated as software that would allow for a 
> >back-up copy of the CD and, therefore, preclude the use of the 
> >corrupted CDs to prevent copying on computers. 

As far as I am concerned, there is no connection between the DMCA and
corrupt discs because no CD-corruption technology can possibly be
viewed as an effective technical protection measure (TPM).  There is
no encryption possible on the CD audio (not if a normal CD player is
going to play it), it is all about tricking or confusing the CD-ROM
drive firmware and/or the operating system and/or the user.

I have no idea whether backup provisions for software can be applied
to CD audio.

Isn't there already some separate kind of 'fair use' permitted in the
US which permits media-shifting of audio?  (Maybe I'm wrong)


miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote:
> yeah but, sadly for CD backup rights, the news from over here is that 
> he's very unlikely to get elected - after hearing his debates with Bush 
> and the ever-increasing news stories, the inevitable is that Bush will 
> have a second term...

Negative thought for the day.  

America really is a one-horse town.  Isn't it frightening/depressing
when such a great part of America's population's voting is 100%
predictable?  (And 100% controllable?)  What a completely dead
political system.

Jim

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