http://lwn.net/Articles/18304/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "ElcomSoft gets off". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/18556/rss 2002-12-19T18:02:24+00:00 emkey Maybe I'm a little wet behind the ears, but I don't see this particular portion of the DMCA standing up when it makes it to the supreme court. Its essentially equivalent to congress passing a law saying that anyone who makes a tool that could be used for assult or murder can be put on trial. Thus a company that made baseball bats or hammers, etc. would be in significant danger of incurring substantial legal expenses etc.<p>A tool is a tool. Any good tool can be put to many different uses. Requiring the tool maker to be lible for a tool users eventual use of their tools has the potential to have a very negative impact across the board.<p> http://lwn.net/Articles/18503/rss 2002-12-19T05:04:33+00:00 ksmathers You underestimate the importance of the Elcomsoft trial. While the jury<br>verdict isn't relevant in setting precedent, the instructions of the <br>Judge regarding what constitutes willful violation of the law is a much<br>higher hurdle than what the government was arguing for. Willful in this<br>law now means that the offending party must have been aware of the law,<br>and have intended to break it. The government was arguing that having<br>broken the law was sufficient evidence of willful violation.