RE: discomforting news on the "code-as-speech" front
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> How can you backup the dvd in analog space? Leaving out the fact you
You can't. However, fortunately the argument that fair use isn't intended
to apply to technologically modern media holds no water at all and is
unlikely to be accepted by anybody (even this appeals court). Appeals
courts always beat up whoever's presenting at the time with hypothetical
arguments.
As far as the 1st Amendment applying to source code and not compiled code,
I don't really have a problem with that. It should be obvious how this
benefits free software.
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