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Default Macrovision hack?


"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
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On a sunny day (Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:48:21 -0500) it happened Dick Sidbury
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Justin wrote:
Colon Terminus wrote on [Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:01:16 GMT]:

No, NOT illegal to copy a DVD.
Illegal to circumvent the encryption on a DVD.


Yes, illegal to copy a DVD. It is illegal to bypass a copy protection
mechanism. Therefore, by copying it you are bypassing it.

Not it's not illegal to bypass a copy protection mechanism. It's
illegal to defeat it.

Interesting, I thought of that some time ago.


It is a ludicrous semantic game you are playing. Bypass and defeat are the
same.