Re: [OT] DMCA loop hole

Yeah it is.  EULA has become totally valid and should be upheld by any
courts who come across one.  (In the US at least.  I don't know the
situation outside the US).  One of the recent bills/acts/whatever made
this change.
	Nick

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > >From Paul G. Allen on Wednesday, 01 August, 2001:
> > >To take another angle, those of us who actively look for exploits in software (because companies like M$ fail to do so themselves) risk being sued for doing so.
> > 
> > Hrm.  Very good point.  However, under most EULA's I've seen, reverse
> >   engineering is already a no-no.
> 
> Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
> disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
> to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
> software people doing the same)
> 
> In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
> and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
> irrelevant
> 
> Alan
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