On 5/4/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, precisely. An encyclopedia article talking about the circumvention tool is not supplying an actual circumvention tool. Knowing the 09 F9 string is not at all the same as being able to apply it.
The law prohibits the trafficking of components of circumvention devices/products/technology. The key is pretty clearly a component. Unlike CSS, AACS is mostly built from public algorithms.. it's is largely fairly standard parts...
However, I am far from convinced we would lose,
*sigh*. I give up.
From now on I'm going to make you deal with every case where someone
thinks we could get away with doing some unnecessary and illegal act X.