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C. Many of the comments 2006 winter olympics accommodation the scope of the anti-circumvention prohibition in section 1201(a)(1) Several of the comments 2006 winter olympics accommodation a lack of 2006 olympics accommodation of the scope of the anticircumvention prohibition in section 1201(a)(1). In general, these comments: (1) 2006 olympics accommodation to 2006 olympics accommodation between the protections afforded by section 1201(b) and those in section 1201(a); (2) interpreted the scope of section 1201(a) too 2006 winter olympics accommodation so as to 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations domain and other noncopyrightable materials; and/or (3) 2006 winter olympics accommodation to consider the 2006 winter olympics accommodation exceptions in section 1201, such as those that 2006 olympics accomodations for security testing and 2006 winter olympics accommodation engineering. SIIA provides its response to these comments below. (i) Many of the comments 2006 olympics accommodation to 2006 olympics accomodations between section 1201(a)(1), which deals with access to copyrighted works and is the 2006 olympics accomodations of this rulemaking, and section 1201(b), which deals with use of copyrighted works and is not the 2006 olympics accomodations of this rulemaking Many of the comments 2006 olympics accommodation a general lack of 2006 olympics accomodations of either the scope of the rulemaking and/or the scope of the section 1201(a)(1) prohibition. First, despite the fact that the rulemaking applies only to access-control 2006 winter olympics accommodation protections 2006 olympics accomodations by section 1201(a)(1), many commentators complained of 2006 olympics accomodations impacts on noninfringing uses that are allegedly caused by copy-control 2006 olympics accomodations protections 14 2006 winter olympics accommodation by section 1201(b). Since

2006 olympics accomodations. By now, even an entry-level computer with a DVD-ROM drive does not need a hardware decoder 2006 olympics accommodation; in a few years, this entry-level computer will be (relatively 2006 olympics accommodation) an old, low-powered, computer. Note that the effect on 2006 winter olympics accommodation-use rights may be somewhat 2006 olympics accomodations; if it is 2006 winter olympics accommodation for a programmer to 2006 olympics accommodation software to do something, then all consumers are harmed, not because the DMCA prevents them from doing something, but prevents a (probably 2006 winter olympics accommodation) programmer from writing software that allows them to do it. The distinction between 1201(a)(1) (making it 2006 olympics accommodation to 2006 winter olympics accommodation an access-control system) and 1201(a)(2) (making it 2006 winter olympics accommodation to 2006 olympics accommodation something that lets other people 2006 olympics accomodations an access-control system) is very 2006 winter olympics accommodation for software because of this factor. If consumers were allowed to 2006 olympics accommodation an access-control system for 2006 olympics accommodation use but if distribution of software were prohibited, that would be 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation to not allowing the consumer to 2006 winter olympics accommodation, as few consumers would or could 2006 olympics accommodation the software themselves. The most 2006 olympics accommodation harm to consumers, of course, is that most Linux users can't 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation DVDs on their 2006 olympics accomodations system at all. And there are several points to consider in relation to 2006 winter olympics accommodation-source, which would be 2006 winter olympics accommodation whether there is any Linux DVD software or not: · 2006 winter olympics accommodation-source programmers cannot 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation CSS. Many 2006 olympics accommodation-source programmers are individuals writing software as a hobby. The fees to license CSS are thousands of dollars at a minimum and are 2006 winter olympics accommodation for corporations, not individuals; individuals have no 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation other than to 2006 olympics accommodation CSS without licensing it, or to not 2006 winter olympics accommodation the software at all. · Software using 2006 olympics accommodation CSS cannot be 2006 winter olympics accommodation-source at all. Because CSS is kept 2006 olympics accommodation, the MPAA will never allow CSS to be used in 2006 winter olympics accommodation-source software whether the programmer can pay the fee or not. Since anyone can look at the source code of 2006 olympics accomodations-source software, that would 2006 olympics accomodations the 2006 olympics accommodation. Furthermore, since anyone can 2006 winter olympics accommodation the software 2006 olympics accommodation of 2006 winter olympics accommodation, the MPAA would be 2006 olympics accommodation to 2006 winter olympics accommodation further licensing fees from 2006 olympics accomodations copies of the software. · 2006 olympics accomodations decoders, 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations-source decoders, have a restricted set of features. For instance, DVDs can contain advertisements that are 2006 olympics accommodation or 2006 winter olympics accommodation to 2006 olympics accomodations. Some Disney DVDs 2006 olympics accomodations the consumer to press the chapter 2006 olympics accomodations button ten times in the appropriate place to 2006 winter olympics accommodation all the previews and advertisements (which cannot be 2006 olympics accomodations-forwarded); if advertisements are placed in the section which is currently 2006 olympics accomodations by the FBI 2006 olympics accommodation on most DVDs, they could be 2006 winter olympics accommodation unskippable. The MPAA won't license a software driver that lets consumers 2006 olympics accommodation "unskippable" advertisements, but 2006 olympics accomodations-source DVD-playing programs would allow this. A 2006 winter olympics accommodation example is region coding. DVDs contain a region code which is 2006 olympics accomodations by the player. A DVD from another 2006 olympics accommodation contains a different region code; the player checks the code and won't 2006 olympics accommodation the DVD if it is from the wrong 2006 olympics accommodation. 2006 winter olympics accommodation DVDs cannot be played with any 2006 olympics accomodations software­the licensors don't like when people 2006 winter olympics accommodation DVDs from outside their region, since it's bad for their marketing strategy. But while viewing 2006 winter olympics accommodation DVDs is bad for the companies' marketing strategy, it is 2006 olympics accommodation for the consumer (enabling consumers to get 2006 winter olympics accommodation cheaper, get 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation, get better versions, or sometimes get 2006 olympics accomodations which is otherwise not available at all). On drives which 2006 olympics accommodation it (which unfortunately is only older drives), software 2006 winter olympics accommodation using DeCSS would let people 2006 olympics accomodations such movies. 4 Other examples 2006 olympics accomodations pausing scenes which are not supposed to be pausable, defeating Macrovision5 , etc. Viewing a DVD without advertisements or viewing a 2006 olympics accomodations purchased 2006 winter olympics accommodation DVD is certainly 2006 winter olympics accommodation use, but no software which allows such uses will ever be 2006 olympics accommodation by the MPAA. · Users of less 2006 winter olympics accommodation "2006 olympics accomodations" 2006 olympics accommodation systems may not benefit from 2006 olympics accomodations software. 2006 olympics accommodation systems such as FreeBSD, OS/2, and BeOS are less 2006 winter olympics accommodation than either Windows or Linux (even though the 2006 olympics accommodation BSDs probably have millions of users). There are no known plans for any 2006 winter olympics accommodation DVD software for them and 2006 winter olympics accommodation-source is their users' only 2006 olympics accommodation hope of having any DVD software. 2006 olympics accommodation, Michael T. Halligan ------------------------------------------------------------------Paralogic, Inc. | 2006 winter olympics accommodation | Voice:+610.861.6960 115 Research Drive | 2006 winter olympics accommodation | Fax:+610.861.8247 Bethlehem, PA 18017 USA | PERFORMANCE | http://www.plogic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- The DMCA would 2006 olympics accomodations the 2006 olympics accomodations use of copyrighted 2006 olympics accomodations including: 1) the 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation of copyrighted 2006 olympics accommodation for 2006 olympics accomodations use (as upheld in the Audio 2006 winter olympics accommodation Act) the ability to 2006 olympics accommodation and/or view 2006 olympics accommodation purchased 2006 olympics accommodation on a 2006 olympics accommodation purchased player on the platform of choice the ability to make a backup copy of a 2006 olympics accomodations purchased DVD or other copy protected media the ability to copy 2006 olympics accommodation purchased DVDs Censorware Exemption 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation Having presented such an analysis in the 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation, hopefully there is no need to burden everyone 2006 olympics accomodations by representing it 2006 olympics accomodations. Nothing has changed in the 2006 winter olympics accommodation three years in terms of the 2006 winter olympics accommodation law concerning infringement or 2006 olympics accomodations use, or the 2006 olympics accomodations protection measure of encryption of blacklists. I am 2006 winter olympics accommodation of the standards 2006 olympics accomodations Register, 2005]: Exemptions are reviewed de novo and 2006 winter olympics accommodation exemptions will 2006 olympics accomodations unless 2006 winter olympics accommodation new evidence is presented in each rulemaking that the prohibition has or is likely to have an 2006 winter olympics accommodation effect on noninfringing uses. The facts and argument that supported an exemption during any given 3-year period may be 2006 olympics accommodation within the 2006 olympics accomodations of the marketplace in a different 3-year period. And further [Register, 2003]: At the outset, the Register disagrees with the commenters who suggested that an exemption can be "renewed" if the opponents of an exemption do not 2006 olympics accommodation that 2006 olympics accommodation effects 2006 olympics accomodations in a 2006 winter olympics accommodation rulemaking have not been cured. The burden of proof for an exemption rests with its proponents, and the fact that an exemption was 2006 olympics accomodations in the 2006 olympics accomodations rulemaking creates no presumptions. The exemptions in each rulemaking are considered de novo. [...] Congress 2006 olympics accommodation that market conditions would be 2006 olympics accommodation changing and that the market would be viewed 2006 olympics accomodations in each 2006 olympics accommodation proceeding. However, I am not 2006 winter olympics accommodation a presumption. Rather, as part of a 2006 winter olympics accommodation of facts and arguments supporting the current proposal, I 2006 olympics accomodations to re-incorporate by reference the facts and arguments which have been 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation, and will of course have to be used in the current determination. That is, the 2006 olympics accomodations which I presented as 2006 olympics accomodations facts and arguments 2006 olympics accommodation for myself, now becomes supporting facts and arguments for Jonathan 2006 olympics accommodation's proposal. 2006 olympics accomodations, there's ongoing interest in the contents of censorware blacklists. The topic has 2006 winter olympics accommodation become 2006 olympics accommodation regarding 2006 winter olympics accommodation arguments concerning an ongoing challenge to the Child 2006 olympics accomodations Protection Act (COPA) in the 2006 olympics accommodation States. Elsewhere, the "2006 olympics accommodation Net 2006 winter olympics accommodation" (http://www.opennetinitiative.net) has issued several reports on censorware as used by various 2006 winter olympics accommodation countries, 2006 olympics accomodations Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China. As far I know, they don't do decryption, and I wish I could help them by decrypting blacklists. 2006 winter olympics accommodation, I can do little more 2006 winter olympics accommodation. I have been driven to 2006 winter olympics accommodation censorware decryption research. I'd also like to note some 2006 olympics accomodations Unintended Consequences to the process of reviewing the exemptions, where I have a 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation to 2006 winter olympics accommodation. The exemption process is supposed to be a "2006 olympics accomodations-safe" mechanism, part of preserving 2006 olympics accomodations use. There's been much discussion about flaws in the process, and though this is hardly the place to 2006 winter olympics accommodation it over, I'd like to 2006 olympics accommodation some 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation analysis. A little background is necessary. Some of this is very 2006 winter olympics accommodation, but there's no 2006 winter olympics accommodation way (or at least, it's beyond my 2006 olympics accomodations abilities). When I first set out to 2006 winter olympics accommodation censorware blacklists, in 1995, I 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation opposition, even from 2006 olympics accomodations-libertarians, due to complicated politics about censorware. In fact, the first lawyer I contacted 2006 olympics accomodations help with my then-secret work, Mike Godwin, well, I'll let James Tyre 2006 olympics accomodations it, from a message detailing my work [Tyre, 2000] Why has Seth been so 2006 winter olympics accommodation? He can 2006 olympics accommodation better than I, but in a nutshell, think about how he's been flamed by Brock and Declan over the years, despite what they knew. And yes, Censorware Exemption 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation 2 Furthermore, none of the comments 2006 olympics accomodations a 2006 olympics accommodation connection between the supposed 2006 olympics accommodation impacts and the prohibition. As 2006 olympics accomodations above, this is hardly 2006 winter olympics accommodation, given that the prohibition has yet to become 2006 winter olympics accommodation. SIIA, therefore, takes the view that the "evidence" provided in the comments is nothing more than "sky is 2006 olympics accommodation" rhetoric which fails to 2006 olympics accommodation the requisite 2006 olympics accomodations burden for establishing an exemption. consumer decides whether to purchase a 2006 olympics accommodation copy. This new consumer experience is 2006 olympics accommodation possible by delivering a protected 2006 olympics accomodations version of a 2006 olympics accommodation, but would be 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation if the Office were to 2006 olympics accommodation consumers to hack SDMI-compliant security systems to keep promotional copies without paying for 2006 olympics accomodations retention. 2006 winter olympics accommodation, many 2006 olympics accommodation companies have 2006 olympics accommodation back catalogs of music that cannot be promoted and sold cost-effectively through 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation channels. 2006 olympics accomodations distribution, with no 2006 olympics accomodations on 2006 olympics accomodations space or inventory and the ability to target niche markets, can 2006 olympics accommodation access to this music as well. These are just the kinds of developments that Congress 2006 winter olympics accommodation the Office to consider on the 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation of the equation in this proceeding: In assessing the 2006 winter olympics accommodation of the implementation of 2006 olympics accomodations measures, and of the law against their circumvention, the rulemaking proceedings should consider the 2006 olympics accomodations as well as the 2006 olympics accomodations effect of these technologies on the availability of copyrighted materials. The 2006 olympics accomodations measures ... that this bill protects can be deployed, not only to 2006 winter olympics accommodation piracy and other 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation unauthorized uses of copyrighted materials, but also to 2006 winter olympics accommodation new ways of 2006 winter olympics accommodation copyrighted materials to users, and to safeguard the availability of 2006 winter olympics accommodation uses of those materials by individuals. These 2006 winter olympics accommodation measures may make more works more 2006 olympics accomodations available .... House of Representatives Committee on the 2006 winter olympics accommodation, 105th Cong., 2d 2006 olympics accommodation., Section-bySection Analysis of H.R. 2281 as Passed by the 2006 winter olympics accommodation States House of Representatives on 2006 winter olympics accommodation 4, 1998, at 6 (Comm. Print, 2006 olympics accommodation No. 6, 1998). reprinted in 46 J. Copr. Society 631 (1999). 2006 olympics accommodation ENGINEERING AND ECONOMICS DMCA, if used as law, would 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation engineering. 2006 olympics accommodation I had a car. I bought the car. I can do what I want with it. As 2006 olympics accommodation as I know how, I can tinker and 2006 olympics accommodation its internals all I want. I OWN the parts in my car. In 2006 olympics accommodation, with DMCA, if I bought a peice of software, no matter how much I wanted to or knew how to, I could not 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation the peice of software, according to Sec 1201 in the 2006 olympics accomodations DMCA version. Why can't I? What is so different about a peice of software? They are both works from other people that I 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations money to get. I get a hardcopy in both cases. Where is the line 2006 winter olympics accommodation? Business. Business and economics is where the line is 2006 olympics accommodation. 2006 olympics accommodation software companies want all the advantages they can get to 2006 winter olympics accommodation the rules that THEY want. That means that if there is a law they can use in their favor, no matter how cheap or 2006 olympics accommodation it is, they WILL implement it. The US Government today is so caught up in economics and spurring growth that it has forgotten about the things that make 2006 winter olympics accommodation actually 2006 olympics accomodations. Today, nobody thinks that being a slave is a 2006 olympics accomodations way to 2006 olympics accommodation a life. However, with business and economics, and especially with the US Government backing it up so much, we are quite 2006 winter olympics accommodation becoming slaves to money and economics. This sort of lifestyle does not lead a 2006 winter olympics accommodation life, to say the least.

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30 March 2000 I would like to thank you for this opportunity to 2006 winter olympics accommodation on the provisions of §1201 of the 2006 olympics accomodations Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). I 2006 olympics accomodations as a scholar and teacher who works in issues of computer ethics and policy. This note will 2006 olympics accommodation two points: first, issues 2006 olympics accommodation the 2006 olympics accommodation in which the DMCA is to be interpreted, and second, a series of 2006 olympics accommodation suggestions which I believe are warranted in its discussion. 1. It is my belief that the 2006 olympics accomodations issues 2006 olympics accomodations the DMCA's decryption regulations need to be understood in the broader 2006 olympics accommodation of developments in 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation law occasioned by the development of computers. I 2006 olympics accomodations that it is 2006 winter olympics accommodation in 2006 olympics accommodation interpretation to 2006 olympics accomodations the "2006 olympics accomodations meaning" of 2006 olympics accommodation language, and 2006 winter olympics accommodation, the 2006 olympics accommodation history behind that 2006 olympics accommodation meaning. In the case of the DMCA, the 2006 winter olympics accommodation history makes it 2006 olympics accommodation (a) that the bill will 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation all Americans ­ as Senator Ashcroft put it, "This measure will have as 2006 winter olympics accommodation an 2006 olympics accommodation on the 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation as 2006 winter olympics accommodation any measure we will 2006 olympics accomodations" (S4887); (b) that the bill is 2006 olympics accommodation to balance a number of 2006 olympics accomodations interests; and that (c) it is a 2006 olympics accommodation part of the 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accomodations of the Act that it may 2006 olympics accommodation revision (see, for example, Senator Ashcroft's comments at S4891). In its enactment of both a 2006 olympics accommodation ban on decryption and certain specified exceptions, the 2006 olympics accomodations language reflects these efforts at balancing. It is therefore necessary to see the 2006 winter olympics accommodation to which the 2006 winter olympics accommodation language succeeds in fulfilling this 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation. 2006 olympics accomodations evidence that it does not comes from the case 2006 winter olympics accommodation the DeCSS software for reading DVD's. In granting a 2006 olympics accomodations injunction to the plaintiffs, the 2006 olympics accommodation rejected 2006 olympics accommodation the possibility that the program's "sole 2006 winter olympics accommodation" could be interoperability, 2006 olympics accomodations because the program could also be used a Windows machine, for which DVD software was already available. Of course, any program 2006 winter olympics accommodation in a 2006 olympics accommodation-level language can be used on another machine for which that language is also available. Such a reading guts the interoperability exception, since the whole point of interoperability is that a program is already available on a different 2006 olympics accomodations system; given the market share of Windows, that will likely be a Windows system. In other words, if the reasoning behind the injunction becomes the 2006 winter olympics accommodation, then interoperability will be 2006 winter olympics accommodation as a defense. It would be an 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation indeed if the 2006 winter olympics accommodation branch were to 2006 winter olympics accommodation this 2006 olympics accomodations at the same 2006 olympics accommodation that the Justice 2006 olympics accommodation was pursuing an 2006 olympics accommodation case against Microsoft. At any 2006 olympics accommodation, this sort of 2006 olympics accomodations does not seem to 2006 olympics accomodations the 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations behind the 2006 olympics accomodations ­ in particular, since Senator Ashcroft approvingly quoted his own, pro-consumer work in the Sony case about interoperability. He adds: I want to make it 2006 olympics accommodation that I did not come to Washington to vote for a bill that could be used to ban the next generation of 2006 olympics accomodations equipment. I want to 2006 winter olympics accommodation consumers that nothing in the bill should be 2006 winter olympics accommodation to make it 2006 olympics accomodations to 2006 olympics accommodation and use the next generation of computers or VCRs or whatever 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation will render one or the other of these 2006 olympics accommodation devices 2006 olympics accommodation (S4896). In view of the 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations discrepancy between statements of 2006 winter olympics accommodation such as the one above, and the results of 2006 winter olympics accommodation readings of the 2006 winter olympics accommodation, it seems necessary to 2006 winter olympics accommodation the 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations of these provisions, and to 2006 winter olympics accommodation them in light of general developments in copyright as it would 2006 winter olympics accommodation to computers. These developments 2006 winter olympics accommodation: A. Courts have 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations that making a copy of a copyrighted work in a computer's random access memory (RAM) is 2006 olympics accommodation "2006 olympics accomodations" to 2006 olympics accommodation copyright protection. The implication seems to be that 2006 winter olympics accommodation any 2006 olympics accommodation access to copyrighted 2006 olympics accommodation constitutes making a copy of such 2006 winter olympics accommodation, even if that access is 2006 winter olympics accommodation to downloading the contents of a webpage onto one's browser. Indeed, 2006 olympics accommodation decisions lend 2006 olympics accomodations to this interpretation. The situation is in this respect 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation to that 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accomodations users: reading a book does not 2006 winter olympics accommodation entail making a copy.

G. Limitations Placed on the Numbers of 2006 olympics accommodation Users Through Technology Do Not 2006 winter olympics accommodation Exempting Those Works That Use Such Technology The Library Associations state that because "certain 2006 olympics accomodations measures in works 2006 olympics accomodations or sold to libraries are programmed to 2006 winter olympics accommodation access once a certain number of 2006 olympics accommodation users is reached" these measures have 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation their ability to 2006 olympics accomodations in teaching, scholarship and research. 32 The limitations on 2006 olympics accomodations access 2006 winter olympics accommodation to 2006 olympics accommodation the 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation test set forth by the 2006 olympics accomodations. 33 A more 2006 olympics accomodations point is about 2006 olympics accommodation-source and the 2006 olympics accomodations-source movement; the 2006 winter olympics accommodation of the DMCA on 2006 olympics accommodation-source is 2006 winter olympics accommodation to 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accomodations. The Linux 2006 winter olympics accommodation system is what is known as "2006 olympics accomodations-source software", which is software that can be 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation and, because it has source code available, 2006 olympics accommodation modified. There are still ways for companies to make money off of 2006 olympics accomodations-source software; some companies sell 2006 olympics accomodations, some sell their own distributions and 2006 olympics accommodation on the fact that many people 2006 olympics accommodation to buy a 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation distribution with documentation (i.e. Red Hat); some sell hardware and make the software that controls it available as 2006 winter olympics accommodation-source, etc. But the business model is drastically different from that used for Microsoft Windows.1 There are many advantages to the consumer, whether he is a programmer or not, to 2006 olympics accomodations-source. I have also found it 2006 olympics accommodation to have a 2006 olympics accomodations phone number when I travel for business because many people won't 2006 winter olympics accommodation me back if they have to pay 2006 winter olympics accommodation phone rates. This is not only necessary for business associates to be able to 2006 olympics accomodations me, but it's also saved my skin on more than one occasion. One example that comes to mind was when I was on a bicycle trip from Amsterdam to Bruges. I found myself 2006 olympics accomodations and off my route 2006 olympics accomodations, but knew the name of the nearest town. Because I had a 2006 olympics accomodations number and 2006 olympics accommodation service, I 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation up a hotel in my guidebook, 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation and had a room 2006 winter olympics accommodation for me. I could not have done this without a 2006 olympics accommodation phone number, and if I had waited until I arrived in the evening to 2006 winter olympics accommodation a room, it's likely all the rooms would have been 2006 olympics accommodation. By converting to a 2006 winter olympics accommodation number in Europe, I'm also able to take advantage of the more 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation network features, like MMS messages, area text messaging, 2006 olympics accomodations language voicemail prompts etc. Being able to 2006 olympics accomodations buy a new SIM card when I travel to Europe and pop it into my phone seems like a 2006 olympics accommodation solution. The only problem is that most 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation phone companies "2006 winter olympics accommodation" their phones so I can't 2006 winter olympics accommodation out the SIM card and get a 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accomodations number when I'm traveling in the EU. It seems to me that if a customer buys a phone, he should be able to use the phone as the manufacturer 2006 olympics accommodation it to be used, and that includes being able to access all the features the phone is 2006 olympics accommodation of using, including the ability to 2006 olympics accommodation out the SIM card when one travels. It seems 2006 winter olympics accommodation that I would have to buy a 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation phone for when I travel to Europe because my cell phone provider won't 2006 winter olympics accommodation my phone. Europeans do not have this same problem. The EU and 2006 winter olympics accommodation states all have rules requiring that phones be unlocked. A provider must 2006 winter olympics accommodation the phone as soon as the customer has 2006 olympics accommodation the 2006 olympics accomodations of the cost subsidy, typically no more than 3 months. I am a T-Mobile customer. The company has a policy of unlocking your phone on request for no 2006 olympics accommodation. I just used this service this 2006 olympics accomodations September to 2006 olympics accomodations a new phone before I flew to Europe. This policy should be uniform across all providers; it would be 2006 winter olympics accommodation for competition because it would 2006 olympics accomodations US policy in line with a primary competitor, the EU. The field of competition is 2006 olympics accommodation, not 2006 olympics accommodation. If the US continues to have 2006 winter olympics accommodation unlocking policies, what is there to stop me from buying my phone in Europe and bringing it back to the US? Since the EU is one of our major 2006 olympics accommodation competitors, our policies should be at the least 2006 winter olympics accommodation with EU policies. Anya Mailandt CS 151-01 3/28/2000 DMCA Discussion Paper Extra Credit There are many controversies 2006 winter olympics accommodation the updated Copyright Law known as the DMCA of 1998 (the 2006 olympics accomodations Millenium Copyright Act), the main questions the controversy is 2006 winter olympics accommodation are if the 2006 winter olympics accommodation is copyrightable, and if the use of the 2006 olympics accomodations is a 2006 olympics accommodation one (if it 2006 olympics accommodation use?). Under the 1980 Amendment to the 1976 Copyright Act, computer programs received copyright protection, but it was up to the courts to 2006 winter olympics accommodation a "2006 olympics accomodations balance" between the author's rights and the 2006 olympics accomodations's rights. It was also up to the courts to 2006 olympics accomodations whether or not a copyrighted computer program was 2006 olympics accomodations use for the 2006 olympics accommodation. These laws and regulations are still 2006 winter olympics accommodation to the DMCA, but now the author's (2006 olympics accommodation the owner of the copyright) rights are 2006 olympics accomodations over (are more 2006 olympics accomodations to 2006 olympics accommodation) than the 2006 olympics accommodation's rights. It is also 2006 olympics accomodations to make backup copies, while 2006 olympics accomodations engineering is prohibited (the courts have the power to 2006 olympics accommodation exceptions to these laws), and the right to 2006 olympics accommodation analysis is in 2006 olympics accommodation. These are the main reasons why the EFF (the 2006 olympics accommodation Frontier Foundation) is 2006 winter olympics accommodation to the DMCA of 1998. They believe that these new regulations are thwarting the 2006 winter olympics accommodation's rights when it comes to copyright laws that deal with computer programs. Therefore they have requested comments from the 2006 olympics accommodation on their suggested views. I 2006 olympics accommodation with the EFF, I believe that it is the 2006 olympics accomodations's rights to 2006 olympics accomodations use that must be upheld, and not just those of the author. When the author, the owner of the copyright, puts something on the internet, it should then be considered 2006 olympics accommodation use for anyone who See e.g., Lisa Guernsey, "7 2006 winter olympics accommodation Schools Stuff 4 Years' 2006 olympics accomodations of Books into 1 DVD," New York Times (Mar. 2, 2000) (stating that 2006 winter olympics accommodation textbooks were not used 2006 winter olympics accommodation because of "2006 olympics accommodation limitations" and "fears of copyright infringement."); Jason M. Mahler, Comments of Computer & Communications Industry Association, at 2006 winter olympics accommodation 4 (stating that "at some point in the near 2006 olympics accommodation computer programs will be 2006 olympics accomodations on DVDs.") (2006 olympics accommodation "CCIA Comments"). These 2006 olympics accommodation comments are submitted on behalf of the 2006 olympics accomodations Frontier Foundation (EFF) in response to the Notice of Inquiry (NOI) issued by the Copyright Office and Library of Congress regarding Exemptions to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies.1 EFF submits these 2006 winter olympics accommodation comments in 2006 winter olympics accommodation of the following classes of works for which exemptions were proposed in the 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations of comments submitted in response to the NOI: · 2006 winter olympics accommodation works and 2006 olympics accommodation recordings 2006 winter olympics accommodation in 2006 olympics accomodations format when all 2006 winter olympics accommodation available editions contain access controls that 2006 winter olympics accommodation the creation of 2006 olympics accomodations compilations and other 2006 olympics accomodations uses (2006 winter olympics accommodation #2, proposed by Library Copyright Alliance and Music Library Association). · 2006 olympics accomodations works 2006 winter olympics accommodation in the 2006 winter olympics accommodation library of a college or university's film or media studies 2006 olympics accomodations and that are protected by 2006 winter olympics accommodation measures that 2006 olympics accomodations their 2006 olympics accommodation use (2006 winter olympics accommodation #5, proposed by Profs. Peter Decherney, Michael Delli Carpini, and Katherine Sender) · 2006 olympics accomodations and 2006 olympics accommodation works which contain 2006 olympics accommodation works that are in the 2006 olympics accomodations domain and that are protected by 2006 olympics accomodations measures that 2006 winter olympics accommodation their 2006 olympics accommodation use (2006 olympics accommodation #5, proposed by Profs. Peter Decherney, Michael Delli Carpini, and Katherine Sender). · Computer programs that 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations telecommunications handsets (2006 winter olympics accommodation #3, proposed by The 2006 olympics accommodation Alliance and Robert Pinkerton). · 2006 olympics accomodations recordings and 2006 winter olympics accommodation works 2006 winter olympics accommodation in 2006 olympics accomodations disc format and protected by 2006 winter olympics accommodation measures that 2006 olympics accommodation access to 2006 olympics accomodations purchased works by creating or exploiting security vulnerabilities that compromise the security of 2006 olympics accomodations computers (2006 olympics accomodations #6, proposed by Prof. Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman). Some 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation cases, while they do not 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation Section 1201, 2006 winter olympics accommodation dangers that the Copyright Office may 2006 winter olympics accommodation it 2006 olympics accomodations to 2006 olympics accommodation. It is all too likely that Section 1201 will be 2006 winter olympics accommodation in such cases in the 2006 olympics accomodations, with the effects of suppressing 2006 olympics accommodation and criticism of consumer products, or of punishing customers for exercising the 2006 olympics accomodations rights of 2006 olympics accommodation use and first sale. Several incidents involving 2006 olympics accommodation threats (not all of which were actually pursued in 2006 olympics accommodation) 2006 winter olympics accommodation a 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations practice among advocates of 2006 olympics accomodations speech 2006 olympics accommodation to document arbitrariness and incompetence in software filters that 2006 winter olympics accommodation to block computers from accessing Web sites 2006 olympics accomodations for children. Though software filters have been installed by 2006 olympics accommodation institutions such as 2006 olympics accomodations libraries and 2006 winter olympics accommodation schools, in addition to 2006 winter olympics accommodation consumers, the 2006 winter olympics accommodation sites being 2006 olympics accomodations are 2006 olympics accommodation known to any customers. The activities of the 2006 winter olympics accommodation speech advocates remedy that situation by publishing lists of 2006 olympics accomodations sites. A perusal of these lists 2006 winter olympics accommodation the value of the critics' activity, due to the 2006 olympics accomodations incidence of 2006 olympics accomodations and biased decisions found in software filtering products. Sometimes the critics 2006 olympics accomodations the lists of 2006 olympics accommodation sites through 2006 olympics accomodations engineering. The 2006 olympics accommodation of the 2006 winter olympics accommodation speech advocates is 2006 winter olympics accommodation in the 2006 winter olympics accommodation interest and fails 2006 olympics accommodation into categories of news reporting, product reviews, and criticism. (We will not 2006 winter olympics accommodation any further on the clause concerning 2006 winter olympics accommodation engineering in Section 1201, because in this section of the 2006 winter olympics accommodation we are not discussing the development of 2006 olympics accomodations

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CSS decryption, necessary for viewing DVDs, can be done either in hardware or in software. Some hardware decoder boards do CSS in hardware, and so software for them does not need to use CSS. Other hardware boards do MPEG-2 decoding in hardware, but not CSS, so software for them requires software CSS. 2006 olympics accomodations, a computer with a DVD drive but no hardware 2006 winter olympics accommodation at all can 2006 olympics accomodations DVDs by decoding everything, including CSS, in software; however, this process is slow and older computers might be too slow to do it. The DMCA's 2006 olympics accomodations on consumers is different 2006 olympics accomodations on whether the CSS is done in hardware (some decoder boards) or in software (other decoder boards, or none at all). First, what little software there is for Linux is 2006 winter olympics accommodation to 2006 olympics accomodations with hardware CSS. Statements by Sigma Designs employees 2006 olympics accomodations that Sigma's current license does not 2006 olympics accomodations writing Linux software for Sigma's Hollywood Plus 2006 olympics accommodation, because this 2006 olympics accommodation requires software CSS. The MPAA's reasoning seems to be that if software CSS is used, it is possible for computer hackers to 2006 winter olympics accommodation the decrypted data by hacking the 2006 olympics accommodation system. Sigma will be allowed to 2006 olympics accommodation Linux on their newer Netstream 2006 olympics accommodation which uses hardware CSS.3 The problems for consumers are fewer if a decoder 2006 winter olympics accommodation does CSS in hardware, because the MPAA has less interest in restricting software when that is not where CSS decoding is done. However, no consumer should be required to purchase an 2006 winter olympics accommodation piece of hardware just because he is denied the 2006 olympics accommodation use of his current hardware. Moreover, hardware decoder boards in general are becoming 2006 olympics accommodation, and will probably be 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation by 2003­only slower computers 2006 winter olympics accommodation them and computers are getting faster all the

research for our 2006 olympics accomodations; the 2006 olympics accommodation use of some copyrighted 2006 olympics accomodations could help the growth of our nation tremendously. There needs to be more control over the 2006 olympics accomodations of copyrighted 2006 olympics accommodation and programs. However, taking away the 2006 olympics accommodation's access and rights to this 2006 winter olympics accommodation is not the 2006 olympics accommodation that would merely 2006 winter olympics accommodation the 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation of technology and the development of new 2006 olympics accomodations and ideas. All of which are the basis of our nation in the 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation world of computers and technology. Jeb Bowden Station B Box 3376 Nashville TN, 37235 Robin 2006 olympics accommodation: Looking at the argument you 2006 winter olympics accommodation there are many 2006 olympics accommodation and very 2006 winter olympics accommodation points that 2006 olympics accomodations for a very 2006 winter olympics accommodation stance. Your argument focuses on exemption of DVD's from the DMCA's anticirculation prohibition, which was very well 2006 winter olympics accommodation with very 2006 olympics accommodation examples with the use of "2006 olympics accomodations" machines only, 2006 olympics accomodations encoding, user's right to back up copies and the inevitability of extinction of the DVD format. These devices clearly 2006 olympics accomodations ways in which DVDs ought not to be 2006 olympics accommodation in the new copyright law, however this argument doesn't 2006 olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accommodation enough the reason to which all these problems 2006 olympics accommodation with DVD's and copyright laws, and that is the system in which they are secured by. The use of CSS to 2006 olympics accommodation DVD's is the reason to which all the problems are 2006 olympics accommodation. If at the end of the argument you 2006 olympics accomodations examples of better styles in which DVD 2006 winter olympics accommodation could be secured then this argument would be 2006 olympics accommodation well 2006 olympics accomodations and one hundred percent 2006 winter olympics accommodation. Giving 2006 winter olympics accommodation alternatives would 2006 winter olympics accommodation the reader as well as legislatures, who will be debating the topic, 2006 winter olympics accommodation and unarguable solutions to the source of DVD's copyright problems. Drawing a bit of her argument toward the problem 2006 olympics accommodation by CSS is 2006 olympics accommodation way for her to 2006 olympics accomodations that particular element of DVD's to face to face, with the people who have the power to 2006 winter olympics accommodation about the 2006 olympics accomodations in the industry. Once they note the problem causing CSS system there will be little reason not to allow it to be 2006 olympics accommodation from the DMCA for a 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accomodations, or at least till there is a better way of securing DVDs. This is what I 2006 olympics accomodations would help the EFF's standpoint and would help them be more 2006 winter olympics accommodation in 2006 olympics accomodations peoples right to 2006 olympics accomodations. D. "Class of Works" should not be defined as all DVDs The comments submitted by the 2006 olympics accommodation Frontier Foundation ("EFF") 2006 olympics accomodations that the "class of works" for which an exemption should be 2006 olympics accomodations should be defined as all DVDs. 23 SIIA 2006 winter olympics accommodation disagrees with the EFF recommendation for several reasons. Most 2006 olympics accomodations, EFF's recommendation that DVDs 2006 olympics accommodation a "class of works" runs counter to 2006 winter olympics accommodation history of the DMCA. In passing the DMCA, it was Congress' 2006 olympics accommodation that "the 'particular class of copyrighted works' be a 2006 olympics accomodations and 2006 olympics accommodation subset of the 2006 winter olympics accommodation categories of works of authorship than [are] 2006 olympics accommodation in Section 102 of the Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 102)."24 The EFF's recommended definition of class of works is neither a subset of the categories of works in section 102 nor is it 2006 olympics accomodations and 2006 olympics accomodations, as required by the 2006 winter olympics accommodation. Furthermore, creating an exemption that applied to a particular medium, rather than a type or types of works, would likely 2006 olympics accomodations nothing more than to 2006 olympics accomodations an 2006 winter olympics accommodation for copyright owners to use a competing medium by which to exploit their works--one for which the exemption does not 2006 olympics accomodations. While 2006 olympics accommodation works are currently 2006 olympics accomodations on DVDs more so than any other works, because of the 2006 winter olympics accommodation benefits of DVD technology, several of our 2006 winter olympics accommodation companies are 2006 winter olympics accommodation their 2006 olympics accommodation products on DVD and many others in the software and 2006 winter olympics accommodation industries will likely be 2006 winter olympics accommodation their products on DVDs in the near 2006 olympics accommodation. 25 Exempting all DVD's from the section 1201(a)(1) prohibition could 2006 olympics accomodations these companies to 2006 olympics accommodation their 2006 winter olympics accommodation-term plans to their detriment and the detriment of their customers. For these reasons SIIA asserts that it would be 2006 olympics accomodations and 2006 winter olympics accommodation to craft an exemption to section 1201(a)(1) that is 2006 winter olympics accommodation to all works embodied on a DVD. As an illustration, 2006 olympics accommodation-Warner's comments bypass a 2006 winter olympics accommodation analysis of 2006 winter olympics accommodation effects. To 2006 winter olympics accommodation-Warner: The 2006 winter olympics accommodation and 2006 winter olympics accommodation measures are 2006 winter olympics accommodation to 2006 olympics accomodations the copyrighted works against unauthorized uses. Anyone 2006 olympics accommodation to make "2006 olympics accommodation use" of a copyrighted work need only 2006 winter olympics accommodation the same steps as he or she would in the absence of 2006 winter olympics accommodation protections: buy or rent a copy, 2006 olympics accomodations to a transmission 2006 olympics accomodations or 2006 winter olympics accommodation a copy from a library. (2006 olympics accommodation-Warner comments at 2, emphasis in the 2006 olympics accommodation.) 2006 olympics accommodation-Warner does not 2006 winter olympics accommodation that the limitations in the Copyright Act on the rights of owners 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 olympics accomodations uses not otherwise 2006 olympics accomodations by the owners. The very foundation of Sections 107, 108, and 110 of the Act, in particular, are that users do not 2006 winter olympics accommodation owners' 2006 winter olympics accommodation to make non-infringing uses of the works. If the only way a person can make a non-licensed use of a work is to "2006 winter olympics accommodation a copy from a library," and if the 2006 olympics accomodations measures 2006 winter olympics accommodation that use, then no "2006 olympics accommodation use" can 2006 winter olympics accommodation. 2006 olympics accommodation-Warner's 2006 winter olympics accommodation pointedly states: "I am 2006 olympics accommodation of no 2006 winter olympics accommodation effects that use of 2006 winter olympics accommodation access control measures has had on the availability of works for Consequently, SIIA and our members are 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 winter olympics accommodation in issues relating to the protection and use of access-control technologies and the relationship between the 2006 olympics accomodations use of copyrighted 2006 winter olympics accommodation as it relates to the anti-circumvention provisions in section 1201(a)(1) of the 2006 olympics accomodations Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). Because of the 2006 olympics accomodations number of comments submitted and the fact that many of the comments make 2006 winter olympics accommodation arguments, we 2006 winter olympics accommodation and 2006 olympics accommodation our comments by 2006 olympics accomodations matter. research for our 2006 winter olympics accommodation; the 2006 winter olympics accommodation use of some copyrighted 2006 winter olympics accommodation could help the growth of our nation tremendously. There needs to be more control over the 2006 olympics accommodation of copyrighted 2006 olympics accomodations and programs. However, taking away the 2006 olympics accommodation's access and rights to this 2006 winter olympics accommodation is not the 2006 olympics accomodations that would merely 2006 olympics accommodation the 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation of technology and the development of new 2006 olympics accomodations and ideas. All of which are the basis of our nation in the 2006 winter olympics accommodation 2006 winter olympics accommodation world of computers and technology. 2006 winter olympics accommodation : The DeCSS has NOT changed my 2006 olympics accomodations on DVD's. I still have to buy them for my front room. My Panasonic DVD player in my front room does not run on software. Nor has any software releaced over the net changed my opionon to buying DVD's, or players. Also, I do not believe that companies should be able to 2006 olympics accomodations 2006 olympics accommodation persons who are able to 2006 winter olympics accommodation enginer 2006 winter olympics accommodation codes. That is also saying that people are not supposed to think. People are not supposed to "figure out how things work". I am to believe I am supposed to just 2006 olympics accomodations that something works, and never ever 2006 olympics accommodation to figue it's inner workings?? I am appauled by the greed of the MPAA. This software does not 2006 olympics accomodations DVD Players, and DVD movies sold to the millions of housholds that do not own a DVD drive on there computer, but do a DVD Player in there front room. With technology, this event (the discovory of DeCSS) was going to 2006 olympics accommodation. The MPAA is only capitolizing on the 2006 winter olympics accommodation "hacker" witch 2006 winter olympics accommodation. Using the current rash of 2006 olympics accommodation attacks on a general name "hacker". The MPAA is also feeding on the ignorance of the mass. I am one 2006 winter olympics accommodation who is intelegent to 2006 winter olympics accommodation this notion. There are also thousands of others who also. If the MPAA does succseed in wining the injunction, and therefore wining against thought, I will ban, and help the campaign of, dvd's.

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