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| DATE | 2002-07-01 |
| FROM | David Sugar
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Fwd: [DMCA-Activists] WMP DRM update [matt@ele.uri.edu]
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I must have attended a different civics class when I was in school. I was
tought this strange and very radical idea that laws had to be defined by
the consititution rather than by corporations. I am sure when they open
the corporate re-education camps those of us that had this peculiar notion
will be made to understand that history was in error.
Tell me, good citizen, are we still at war with oceana?
On 1 Jul 2002, Ron Guerin wrote:
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> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 22:39, David Sugar wrote:
> > I have heard, and after some thoughtful deliberation, have come to
> > conclude that there is some claim by Microsoft that their contractual
> > rights under their EULA can supercede basic constitutional freedoms, or,
> > specifically, in this particular case, the 4th ammendment, whereby one is
> > free and secure in their own posessions. Clearly DRM acting in this
> > manner, whether attempted to be mandated by government action or
> > introduced by some corporation, is a gross violation of everyone's 4th
> > ammendment rights under the US constitution.
>
> You must have missed the announcement. The US Constitution has been
> declared a circumvention device, and illegal because it violates the
> DMCA, which as we all know is the supreme law of the United States.
>
> Ron
>
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