[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/29/2012 2:10 PM, George Cornelius wrote:
> In article<jg3uko$lbj$1 at reader1.panix.com>, JohnF<john at please.see.sig.for.email.com>  writes:
>> Right, it's a crime, plain and simple.
>
> In most countries, perhaps.  Even, on the surface, in the U.S.
>
> [BEGIN WELL OFF TOPIC REMARK]
>
> There is, however, a constitutional guarantee of freedom of
> speech, and many of us believe that certain provisions of, say,
> the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, run roughshod over that
> guarantee and might not in truth survive a constitutional
> challenge.
>
> That is not to say that in the U.S. you cannot proscute the
> operators of web sites that exist for the purpose of violating
> copyrights.  It's one thing to say you cannot copy a protected
> work; it's another to claim you cannot publish a means by which
> copyright protection can be circumvented.

Nice theory.

ACLU tried to go to court with it and lost.

Arne