Re: Balance of information power was Re: Bad ideas from Microsoft et al

From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 13:20:41 MDT

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    I wrote:
    > Lee Crocker makes a good point that copyright laws, as well as the even
    > more invasive TCPA, undercut the morality of even voluntary digital
    > rights management (DRM) schemes...

    Sorry, I suffered from acronym overload there. I didn't mean TCPA,
    the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, which is a technology proposal.
    I meant the DMCA, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which criminalizes
    attempts to bypass copyright protection systems. I made the same mistake
    in a few more places, writing TCPA where I meant DMCA. Hopefully the
    context will make it clear: where I was talking about legislation,
    I meant DMCA, and where talking about DRM technology, I meant TCPA.

    Hal



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