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Originally posted by Smoketoomuch
Another interesting thing is that they might claim that cdparanoia infringes upon DMCA since it circumvents copy protection technologies. However, cdparanoia exists for some time, and is licenced under GPL - so legally speaking, it is impossible to hold DMCA against it.
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Why not? If it circumvents a copy protection methods? WHat does the licence have to do with this?
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it is the intellectual property of the Open Source community, so it is protected by intellectual property laws. Strange paradox, isn't it?
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Not really, it isn't. Software is protected by IP laws by default (ie: copyright). Just because it is protected by IP does not in any way mean that it is immune from DMCA. Also, cdparanoia is not 'property of the Open Source community', it's the property of whoever created it. In this case, the copyright belongs to:
(C) 2001 Monty <monty@xiph.org> and Xiphophorus