Re: It's not like we WANT copyright technical protection

["Krishna E. Bera" <keb@Cyblings.ON.CA>]

Andy Oram wrote:
> Krishna and Michael, may I forward your replies to the other
> lists (CPSR-hosted) I posted my message to?

This mailing list is archived on the WWW as 
http://lists.essential.org/upd-discuss/
which has no copyright restrictions on use,
so i think my remarks were/are in the public domain. 

> The reference to the DMCA surprised me. It proves that I'll never know the
> whole law no matter how much I study the big mother. I just reread Sections
> 402 and 405 on "ephemeral recordings," where I'd expect the requirement to
> be located, and couldn't find a hint of it. Is it real?

It should be under "Other conditions" as "technical measures".   
I haven't read the DMCA myself, though, so maybe it's just RIAA's 
interpretation that copy protection is required.

> I'm even more interested in what I learned about the Audio Home Recording Act. 

The Home Recording Rights Coalition has a brief history of events at
http://www.hrrc.org/ with a few links to other information.
They seem to be in support of the DMCA...