On 8/7/07, Jakob Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Hawkins wrote: > > On 8/5/07, Jakob Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> DMCA Reverse engineering exemption: > >> > >> http://www.chillingeffects.org/reverse/faq.cgi#QID210 > >> > >> > > > > >From the article: > > > > "The reverse engineer is required to ask permission first, however." > > > > ...good luck with that. > > > > > It is strange that the say that, because I can not find anything about > asking permission in the actual law text: > > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html#f > >
Here I think: 1201a, 3b. 'a technological measure ''effectively controls access to a work'' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.'
