On 07/05/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/7/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Exception 1, actually. It's short enough that
I can post the full text here.
> "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
> or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
> speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
> assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Communicating any methods or means for circumventing
copyright
protection, like communicating copyrighted material itself, is not
protected speech.
This is entirely false. The second part of your assertion is covered
by fair use (which can be up to 100% of the work quoted) and the first
part is not tested. As noted in the Felten case, the RIAA, when told
to shit or get off the pot, backpedaled so fast as to break the world
record for reverse circumnavigation by bicycle.
- d.