Re: Design principles and ethics

[Tom Bachmann]

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Wei Mingzhi wrote:
> At Sat 6 May, 2006 15:30 Pierre THIERRY writes:
> 
>> DRM will not make it impossible to circumvent. DRM is about to give a
>> sealed container and the key. It is only ``possible'' because it uses
>> proprietary software, and there are solutions to break DRM.
> 
> ...but breaking the DRM will be _illegal_ because of these laws.
> 
> Not sure about the DADVSI but China also has a policy like this for software 
> (not for other materials though). And it says that merely "removing" any of 
> the "information used by Digital 'Rights' Management in software" will result 
> in civil penalty if this caused "losses" to the publisher. And DMCA can just 
> be more restrictive than this.
> 

China has laws like this? I thought they do not want DRM (because this
would hand control away from the government)?
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