On May 2, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Andrew Lih wrote:
For reference:
From U.S. Code TITLE 17 > CHAPTER 12 > § 1201
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide,
or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device,
component, or part thereof, that—
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing
a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work
protected under this title;
Yes. There is a good argument for it. There's also the very good
argument against it being illegal, which is that it's not a program
or a piece of technology - it's a number, and a number that can be
found unencrypted without any effort to hack, crack, or otherwise
break into anything (The number was discovered just by watching what
went through the DVD player's memory.)
That's not Wikipedia's battle to fight. It seems that Digg will be the
pioneer in that realm.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)