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To: TechJunkYard
Has anyone been prosecuted successfully under this law?
25 posted on 10/16/2002 5:37:23 PM PDT by Bush2000
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To: Bush2000; demlosers; TechJunkYard
Has anyone been prosecuted successfully under this law?

Yes. Universal v. Reimerdes (a.k.a. the NY DVD case).

Eight major motion picture studios brought a suit under the DMCA against 2600 Magazine to enjoin it from publishing or linking to DeCSS, a computer program that circumvents the encryption on DVDs, called CSS. DeCSS was developed to help enable DVDs to be played on computers running the Linux system. It also allows the constitutionally protected fair use of DVDs, which is otherwise prevented by the encryption.

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) moved for an en banc hearing in NY, but was denied.

26 posted on 10/16/2002 7:02:15 PM PDT by JameRetief
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