European DMCA

Claus Färber list-fsf-eu-discussion at faerber.muc.de
Wed Aug 1 17:49:00 UTC 2001


E L Tonkin <py7elt at bath.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> As I mentioned, if the OS designer had a plausible reason for
> claiming that the FAT should be encrypted ('it's a secure OS')
> then you've moved from accessing your own files to attempting
> access to information that was intended to be encrypted,...

But "encrypted" does not mean "copyrighted". Only breaking an  
encryption (or any other rights management system) for copyrighted  
material is forbidden.

Claus
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