[Infowarrior] - BB: Dumbest DMCA threat EVAR

[Richard Forno]

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/10/dumbest_dmca_threat_.html

>  Dumbest DMCA threat EVAR
>
> Media Rights Technology, a DRM crippleware vendor, has launched what may be
> the dumbest DMCA legal threat ever. They are threatening Adobe and Real with
> lawsuits for failing to buy their crummy technology. Forbes says that Media
> Rights Technology advanced the theory that since the DMCA makes it illegal to
> break DRM, companies with broken DRM have to buy someone else's DRM.
> 
> Well, it's a theory.
> 
>     Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and
> desist letters to both companies and to Adobe Systems Inc (nasdaq: ADBE - news
> - people ) and Real Networks -- which produce the Adobe Flash Player and Real
> Player respectively -- for actively avoiding their X1 SeCure Recording
> Control, which they said is an effective copyright protection system.
> 
>     MRT and Bluebeat said the failure to use an available copyright protection
> solution contravenes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits the
> manufacture of any product or technology designed to circumvent a
> technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work
> or protects the rights of copyright owners.
> 
>     They said a failure to comply with the cease and desist order could result
> in in a federal court injunction and/or the imposition of statutory damages of
> 200-2,500 usd per product distributed or sold.