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Re: Is it apropos? (was: Re: [Plug] DVD people taking the hackers to court)
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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Nicolai Rosen wrote:
> It doesn't matter if we agree with it, but it does matter that they're
> trying to issue an injunction against somebody operating outside of the US.
> They can't really do that unless they get an injunction in the other
> country.
And if the injunction was delivered by a law firm of that company (as was
the case in Norway)?
> >The complaint does mention a suspected complicity of a licensee. This
> >would then meant that the software was based on illegally obtained
> >information.
>
> The information was obtained legally as in the country it was obtained, the
> right to reverse engineer is protected, a protection that superseeds any
> licenses to the contrary. Also, a license doesn't apply merely because you
> open the box. If the person or people who reverse engineered the software to
> strip out the keys never used it, then there would've been no reason for
> them to agree to the license. That being said, I've always thought that the
> idea of somebody agreeing to a license by clicking on a YES box or using the
> software was a bit absurd. For all I know, that's not legally binding (as
> well it shouldn't be) in the country it took place.
I'm not talking about an EULA. I'm talking about a company that obtained
a license to produce DVD software. If they provided material or data to a
third party to enable that party to decode the DVD data, the company would
be in violation of their license.
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 2000
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