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[FYI] (Fwd) MPAA Court of Appeals Brief
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From: John Young <jya@PIPELINE.COM>
Subject: MPAA Court of Appeals Brief
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We offer the Proskauer Rose MPAA Court of Appeals brief
with 47 footnotes (the MPAA-site version omits footnotes):
http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bpa.htm (138KB)
A footnote:
28 Although several of Corley's amici from the field of
cryptography, including cryptographer Bruce Schneier,
criticize the scope of the encryption research exemption
of the DMCA, § 1201(g), ironically, even Mr. Schneier
has voiced strong personal opposition to the public
dissemination of "exploits" (i.e., computer programs
"that make[] use of a vulnerability to attack a system"
(A1056)), like DeCSS, stating that "I believe that it is
irresponsible, and possibly criminal, to distribute
exploits. Reverse-engineering security systems,
discovering vulnerabilities, and writing research
papers about them benefits research; it makes us
smarter at designing secure systems. Distributing
exploits just make [sic] us more vulnerable. . .
Handing computer weaponry to clueless teenagers
is part of the problem." See Bruce Schneier,
Publicizing Vulnerabilities, Crypto-Gram, Feb. 15,
2000 (available at
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0002.html).
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