Re: Circumvention Technology?

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bob Schwartz <shebam[_at_]access.digex.net> wrote:
>
> [The judge] cited the AHRA's legislative history and Technical
> Reference Document as indicating that, where a recorder covered by
> the Act encounters a signal with no SCMS information whatever, it
> should, essentially, treat the signal as if received from an
> analog input.

I find a misremembered in the statement above. Actually, the cited proposition is that a signal lacking the SCMS information should be treated by devices such that "copyright is asserted over the transmitted audio material and that the generation status is original." Meaning that IF the Rio is the "device" in question, it should make a copy but a copy should not be possible, on a compliant device, from that copy. Sorry.

Bob Schwartz
<shebam[_at_]access.digex.net> Received on Mon Nov 02 1998 - 13:58:22 GMT