http://news.com.com/2010-1047_3-5753491.html ...The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis is set to hear arguments Monday in a case that may decide how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, applies to computer software and the important practice of reverse engineering... ...A more difficult question centers on the click-wrap license to which Combs and Crittenden agreed when installing Blizzard's software. It explicitly forbids reverse engineering or doing anything to "emulate or redirect the communication protocols used by Blizzard as part of Battle.net." The Electronic Frontier Foundation and its ideological allies argue that this kind of license is invalid and unenforceable because of a "fair use" right to reverse engineer. I'm not so sure about that, though... _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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