DoJ and Ashcroft want Felton/SDMI test of DMCA to be dropped

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Fri Oct 12 15:05:36 PDT 2001


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/12/0456218&mode=thread
DoJ wants Felton/SDMI test of DMCA to be dropped

They say, "Plaintiffs have not been prosecuted under the DMCA, nor have they
been threatened with such prosecution..."  As if letters from the RIAA
threatening to sue under the DMCA for presenting their academic research
findings at the Usenix conference wasn't threatening.

This follows yesterday's similar denouncement by Ashcroft.

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/11/2151236
Ashcroft to academics: DMCA is not your problem

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the case of a group
of Princeton researchers who are suing to ensure that their research is
protected from reprisals otherwise sanctioned by the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA). Attorney General John Ashcroft wants the court to toss
out the lawsuit because "the statute in question has never been applied to
them," and "they have not foregone any conduct as a result of [the DMCA]."
Ashcroft apparently isn't aware of the rash of e-mailed legal threats Edward
Felten's SDMI research team received.



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