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More DMCA fun!

May 3, 2002 by Michael Boyle

More DMCA fun!

This time the story comes to us from Tom Murphy, who has been asked to remove a program he developed to do nothing more than change a flag contained (in the clear) in a typeface file. The askers? Agfa Monotype and ITC. Judging by the standards that lawyers and companies are attempting to apply, any pencil or pen is a “circumvention device” under the DMCA.

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