> At 10:21 PM 3/14/2001 +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> >Yes, it is (reverse engineering). It's also so in the US; the
> most famous
> >case is Compaq's
> >reverse engineering and reimplementation of the IBM PC BIOS.
>
> Except that the "Millennium Copyright Act" made it illegal and post dates
> the BIOS situation. This is the law under which the DeCSS programmers are
> being prosecuted I believe.

This is getting scarily off topic, but...

It worrying that US laws are being applied to a Norwegian
national.  Or are they going to extradite him?

Later,
Kenn