boingboing rssfeedsspamassassintaintorg url httpboingboingnet85505995 date supplied ive austin weekend friday spoke university texas eff issues jon lebkowsky hell organized blogged hell talk entertainment industry tradition attacking technology piano roll radio sued vaudeville television would destroy cinema betamax affair latter first consumer vcr betamax case argued ability make full copy broadcast work would fair use terms copyright illegal enough vcr kept market argued supreme court got case thing shook betamax principle technology legal long substantial noninfringeing uses principle attack digital millennium copyright act 1998 illegal defeat copyright measure regionalization system dvds control limits distribution john johansen norway figured break content scrambling system allows move one region another override copy protection called decss johansen facing trial creating piece code link1 wes blogged too2 discuss3 1 httpwwwweblogskycom2002_09_01_blarchivehtml85500802 2 httpwmfeditthispagecom20020927 3 httpwwwquicktopiccomboingh4reepy7rsm38x mon 30 sep 2002 080033 0000 talk ut austin