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Re: [DotGNU]login service slamming
From: |
Barry Fitzgerald |
Subject: |
Re: [DotGNU]login service slamming |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:54:04 -0400 |
Rich Hilliard wrote:
>
> | all though that is a scarry thought, I would think that an action of
> | that sort would be conidered steeling and the information was moved
> | wothout the person's knowledge. M$ is not that stupid.
>
> How to undermine slamming, using the DCMA:
>
> Someone asked in another post if there was a way to use the new
> copyright act against M$. This comes to mind in discussion of slamming:
>
> - Create a license for end users to license their personal
> information with copyright and declaring terms of its use.
>
> - Encrypt the personal info
>
> - If M$ or anyone tries to break that for slamming purposes, they run
> afoul DCMA, under Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems :-)
>
> "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide,
> or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device,
> component, or part thereof, that is primarily designed or produced
> for the purpose of cicumventing a technological measure that
> effectively controls access to a work protected under this
> title;..."
>
> -- Rich
>
Hmmm, interesting idea - I think I like that....
It's not unethical, it exists to help the user.... I like that strategy
a lot!
-Barry
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