Re: Adobe & Iomega copy-thwarting system encrypts PDFs w/Zip serial #

[Albert Garrido <albert.garrido@bellatlantic.com>]

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John Gilmore wrote:
> 
> From: mech@eff.org (Stanton McCandlish)
> 
> Yet another reason why unique IDs in hardware are bad for fair use:
> 
> http://www.adobe.com/epaper/features/iomega/main.html

I wonder if they took into account the dreaded click of death.  I
wonder if
they'll give you permission to get another download of the data once
your
disk goes bad.  And did they take into account the huge amount of
customer
service they would need to handle the calls from Irate consumers being
told,
"No Sir, that'll be $98.99 for Yoda's Greatest Hits.  We don't give
discounts
for defective media."

http://www.spinrite.com/clickdeath.htm

I wonder if we should be thanking the geniuses of the UCC that would
make
this legal.

http://www.law.uh.edu/ucc2b/

or 

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/99/32/o12-32.77.htm

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