Larry Schwartz sent us This CNET Story that says HP is using both the controversial 1998 DMCA and computer crime laws, and has threatened to sue a team of researchers who publicized a vulnerability in the company\’s OS.
Chronicle.com reports that Benjamin G. Edelman, a first-year student at Harvard University\’s law school, is the latest academic researcher to challenge the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Mr. Edelman, last month filed a lawsuit against N2H2 Inc., a Seattle-based Internet filtering company, in U.S. District Court in Boston. The suit asks a judge to prevent N2H2 from suing Mr. Edelman under the digital-copyright law should he decide to bypass the company\’s encryption, which prevents him from discovering its complete list of blocked Web sites.
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