RE: discomforting news on the "code-as-speech" front
On 01-May-2001 Branden Robinson wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43470,00.html
>
> There is not a decision yet, but it's looking grim.
>
> The U.S. 2nd Circuit court of appeals looks disinclined to regard compiled
> code as speech. They also seem to feel that fair use does not extend to
> digital copying.
>
> I'm sure all of us who use analog-encoded analog media to back up the
> analog data on our hard drives can breathe a sigh of relief at that
> jurisprudence.
>
How can you backup the dvd in analog space? Leaving out the fact you lose a
lot of the info, macrovision won't let you. It concerns me that the judge even
suggested it (or was it a lawyer).
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