Can The DMCA Be Used To Stifle Speech?

Last summer, we wrote about a very questionable DMCA lawsuit filed by Coupons.com" rel="nofollow">Coupons.com. The company lets people download coupons using its own software. The software is designed to limit how many copies of a coupon people can make.

The company accused John Stottlemire of violating the anti-circumvention part of the DMCA by offering up some software that would help people get around the copy limit. However, he didn't just offer up software to do it, elsewhere he explained how you could do it manually, just by deleting a couple of files on your computer. That's hardly a "hack."

There was no encryption to defeat, just some files to delete. Basically, Coupons.com" rel="nofollow">Coupons.com couldn't be bothered to come up with a system that was actually secure and put in only the weakest of "protections." Yet, Coupons.com" rel="nofollow">Coupons.com claims that telling people to delete some files is circumventing their copy protection.

The EFF (along with the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley) have now filed an amicus ... more.

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