On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:43:22 CST, Paul Schmehl said: > WRT the DMCA, I hope you understand that's simply the enabling legislation > for the US version based upon the world-wide treaty (<http://www.wipo.int/> > ) that your country (and 179 other ones - > <http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/members/member_states.html>) also signed > and agreed to enforce? (Not that agreement of the entire world Yes, but *we* did it *better*. The other countries at least had the sense to include their version of "fair use" as an exemption, whereas we said that the circumvention clause applies even if we're circumventing a feature to get at data that we have a fair use right to access.
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