copy protection - was: Re: Is it time for playing games on WINE?

[Jakob Eriksson]

Geoff Thorpe wrote:

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>subject to trivial circumvention. I can't see how this can be done 
>without requiring a DMCA violation in Wine, the O/S kernel, or requiring 
>the copying of a closed-source driver that *itself* is irreplacable 
>(choosing to load it from Wine and say "don't edit this Wine code to 
>circumvent the commercial driver" in a C comment won't jive). Perhaps 
>I've misunderstood something about the copy-protection model here, but 
>the law itself seems to preclude a general open source solution, no 
>matter how you slice it.
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How about interoperability?

See:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/30/lexmarkcase/

"the Copyright Office ruled that the DMCA does not block software 
developers from using reverse engineering to circumvent digital 
protection of copyright material if they do so to achieve 
interoperability with an independently created computer program."



regards,
Jakob