{"id":240,"date":"2007-05-03T02:36:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2007\/05\/03\/aspects-of-the-dmca-posting-the-key-v"},"modified":"2007-05-03T02:36:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T06:36:36","slug":"aspects-of-the-dmca-posting-the-key-violates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/2007\/05\/03\/aspects-of-the-dmca-posting-the-key-violates\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspects of the DMCA posting &#8220;The Key&#8221; violates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article posted by EFF&#8217;s von Lohmann posting &#8220;The Key&#8221; will certainly violate aspects of the oft hated DMCA.  A growing number of citizens in the US are starting to recognize just how badly the law conflicts with other guarantees of rights possessed by US citizens.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNo person shall &#8230; offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof that &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;<\/p>\n<p>(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or<\/p>\n<p>(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person&#8217;s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Companies like Cafe Press could find themselves facing criminal charges if certain passages of the DMCA are interpreted unfavorably.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the offense is  &#8220;willful and for purposes of commercial gain,&#8221; federal prosecuters can bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/title17\/92chap12.html#1204\">criminal charges<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.  The EFF article notes that this provision has only been used against commercial piracy till now but that doesn&#8217;t rule out the possibility.  Technically selling a T-Shirt or trucker hat on Cafe Press with the 16 digit hex code is commercial trafficking in a decryption device if the AACS LA lawyers are to be believed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article posted by EFF&#8217;s von Lohmann posting &#8220;The Key&#8221; will certainly violate aspects of the oft hated DMCA. A growing number of citizens in the US are starting to recognize just how badly the law conflicts with other guarantees of rights possessed by US citizens. No person shall &#8230; offer to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-rights-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zeroday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}