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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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