RE: [dvd-discuss] did everyone already see this?

["Richard Hartman" <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Sure, the encryption is a TPM ... but does the TPM
govern access to a work protected by Title 17 (copyright)?

If not, the DMCA is inapplicable.


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-Richard M. Hartman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Steinberg [mailto:synthesis@videotron.ca]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 4:44 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] did everyone already see this?
> 
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> I believe they were trying to claim the encryption in the garage door 
> opener codes (the stuff they use to prevent unauthorized 
> access to your 
> garage by some one with a programmable remote) was a TPM...and the 
> mechanism to 'copy' one code to another device...was circumvention....
> I have to admit I read it very quickly....
> 
> 
> Richard Hartman wrote:
> 
> >btw: to qualify for DMCA the TPM must be protecting some 
> copyrightable content.  AFAICT the garage doors were 
> protecting cars, not content.  Why wasn't the claim dismissed 
> as inapplicable?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
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> Dan Steinberg
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