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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:15:09 +0100
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:54:17 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On 2/9/2011 12:49 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> Anybody who sells software must become liable.
> 
> In the U.S., software is expressive speech and cannot be
> legally constrained in this way.

When they passed DCMA, they didn't bother about freedom of speech.

The only thing they should do is to require that any software sold under a
no-liability license must be refundable at the moment the customer stopped
using it. The product was not damaged and is returned its original state.
How does this constrain speech?

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de