Re: exploit in linux kernel
Adam Trilling <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.security |
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Joerg W Mittag wrote:
> I am neither a lawyer nor a native English speaker so I had quite some
> difficulties understanding the legalese in the DMCA. However, I think
> this passage is what the hassle is all about:
>
> | No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide,
> | or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device,
> | component, or part thereof, that is primarily designed or produced
> | for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that
> | effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The section I underlined is what makes the original post a troll. The
DMCA only applies to works owned by the companies who bought the DMCA. If
it applied to any circumvention device, it would have been stricken down
already as a threat to national security.
Adam Trilling
[email protected]
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