Subject: Re: new expanded DMCA-like law
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Ian Cooper <ian@WPI.EDU>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/11/2001 07:42:33
> >Note the use of the word "device".
>
> Definitions in laws don't always match our intuitive understanding --
> here's the actual text:
>
>       (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 some other
>       machine, device, product, software, or technology, that is
>       designed, marketed or used for the primary purpose of, and that is
>       capable of, storing, retrieving, processing, performing,
>       transmitting, receiving, or copying information in digital form."
>
> As best I can tell, that includes all PCs.

As well as software.

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Ian Cooper
ian@wpi.edu