From rssfeeds@jmason.org Mon Sep 30 13:43:40 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039DF16F17 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:43:40 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:43:40 +0100 (IST) Received: from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8U80Xg21183 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:00:33 +0100 Message-Id: <200209300800.g8U80Xg21183@dogma.slashnull.org> To: yyyy@example.com From: boingboing Subject: My talk at UT Austin Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:00:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; encoding=utf-8 Lines: 30 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-521.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DATE_IN_PAST_03_06,T_URI_COUNT_3_5 version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: URL: http://boingboing.net/#85505995 Date: Not supplied I've been in Austin all weekend. On Friday, I spoke at the University of Texas about EFF issues. Jon Lebkowsky was there -- hell, he organized it -- and he blogged the hell out of the talk: Entertainment industry has tradition of attacking technology: the piano roll, the radio (sued by vaudeville), television (would destroy cinema!), "the Betamax affair"... the latter being the first consumer VCR. In Betamax case, argued that the ability to make a full copy of a broadcast work would not be a fair use (in terms of copyright). It was illegal enough that the VCR should be kept off the market, they argued. The Supreme Court got the case, and the thing that shook out of it was the Betamax principle: a technology is legal so long as it has substantial non-infringeing uses. This principle is under attack. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998. Illegal to defeat a copyright measure. Regionalization system for DVDs. This is a control that limits distribution. John Johansen in Norway figured out how to break the content scrambling system and allows you to move from one region to another, override copy protection. It was called DeCSS - Johansen is facing trial for creating a piece of code. Link[1] (Wes blogged it, too[2]) Discuss[3] [1] http://www.weblogsky.com/2002_09_01_blarchive.html#85500802 [2] http://wmf.editthispage.com/2002/09/27 [3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/4rEePy7RSm38x