Re: Design principles and ethics

[Wei Mingzhi]

At Sat 6 May, 2006 15:30 Pierre THIERRY writes:

> DRM will not make it impossible to circumvent. DRM is about to give a
> sealed container and the key. It is only ``possible'' because it uses
> proprietary software, and there are solutions to break DRM.

...but breaking the DRM will be _illegal_ because of these laws.

Not sure about the DADVSI but China also has a policy like this for software 
(not for other materials though). And it says that merely "removing" any of 
the "information used by Digital 'Rights' Management in software" will result 
in civil penalty if this caused "losses" to the publisher. And DMCA can just 
be more restrictive than this.

Wei Mingzhi

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