Re: MS Office 12 format

[carlf@nitpicking.com (Carl Fink)]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:47:45AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 23:03 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Ron Johnson writes:
> > > Also, they may not distribute the schema, and thus make it a DMCA
> > > violation to reverse-engineer said schema.
> > 
> > That doesn't follow at all.
> 
> Why not?

DMCA makes it a crime to break encryption, not necessarily to
reverse-engineer file formats.  MS would have to specifically define
their file format as encrypted, in my non-lawyer's understanding, to
invoke DMCA.
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Carl Fink                                         carl@fink.to
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