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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: U.S. Customs deems serial cables to be violations of the DMCA?




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Date sent:      	Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:29:30 -0500
To:             	politech@politechbot.com
From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:        	FC: U.S. Customs deems serial cables to be violations of the DMCA?
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Politech DMCA archive:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=dmca

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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:48:02 -0700 (MST)
From: Tramm Hudson <hudson@swcp.com>
To: declan@well.com, hollyf@swcp.com, stef@swcp.com
Subject: Serial cables are in violation of the DMCA?

Declan,

Thought this might interest you:

 http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mcmillen/dmca/

Colin is using the Dreamcast for real-time systems work and purchased
serial cables to connect to his computer's RS-232 port for downloading
NetBSD to the Dreamcast console.

Customs siezed the UPS shipment and declared that the cables were in
violation of the DMCA.  UPS had to return them to the sender and there
does not appear to be any chance of appeal.

The EFF is working with Colin.  Hopefully they will be able to
make some headway and determine what happened.

Trammell
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