Just as you don't ask an artist to do your taxes, you don't ask an engineer about patents. I wouldn't want his opinion on them if he was right or wrong.
The difference is that CSS isn't hard to break. The DCMA protects against circumventing encryption for non-reverse engineering purposes. However today, CSS is not an encryption scheme.
It's the difference between a screen door and a safe. The DMCA makes it illegal to open up the safe, but not the screen door.
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Just as you don't ask an artist to do your taxes, you don't ask an engineer about patents. I wouldn't want his opinion on them if he was right or wrong.
At least no one has tried to copyright the idea of having an idea. There seems to be limits to the ridiculousness.
Didn't we just move away from paywalls? Didn't papers like the WSJ and Washington Post get RID of their subscription-only articles?
Shouldn't newspapers know their own history?
The difference is that CSS isn't hard to break. The DCMA protects against circumventing encryption for non-reverse engineering purposes. However today, CSS is not an encryption scheme.
It's the difference between a screen door and a safe. The DMCA makes it illegal to open up the safe, but not the screen door.