On 5/8/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Don't leave all the fun to Hollywood. Thanks to Ed Felten, you can own an integer too!
Let's join in the fun and ignore the fact that the issue had nothing to do with "ownership" of any number.
Depends. The DMCA itself doesn't legislate ownership of a number. But there are an awful lot of people suggesting that it does exactly that - that any mention or distribution of a certain number, in any context whatsoever, without permission of the AACS LA, is illegal.
Anthony