Subject: RE: new expanded DMCA-like law
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: David Lawler Christiansen \(NT\) <DAVIDCHR@windows.microsoft.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/10/2001 13:29:00
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:smb@research.att.com]=20

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> >
> >Note the use of the word "device".
>=20
> Definitions in laws don't always match our intuitive understanding --=20
> here's the actual text:
>=20
>       (3) Interactive digital device -- The term "interactive digital
>       device" means "any machine, device, product, software, or
>       technology, whether or not included with or as part of=20
> some other
>       machine, device, product, software, or technology, that is
>       designed, marketed or used for the primary purpose of,=20
> and that is
>       capable of, storing, retrieving, processing, performing,
>       transmitting, receiving, or copying information in=20
> digital form."
>=20
> As best I can tell, that includes all PCs.


Ouch.  I stand corrected then.