Squeak will become illegal in the US under the CBDTPA?

Andres Valloud sqrmax at prodigy.net
Wed Mar 27 01:46:27 UTC 2002


Hello.

> CBDTPA applies to "any hardware or software that reproduces
> copyrighted works in digital form."  Which Squeak can do.

Some weird effect of this would be that spacecraft able to, say,
compress images with JPEG and transmit (reproduce!) them through space
would also be illegal since jpg files can contain copyrighted work.

Andres.



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