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Subject: Re: Legality of Testing Prohibition - Re: The Style Of Shredder

Author: David Blackman

Date: 02:31:22 04/10/00

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On April 10, 2000 at 01:12:47, Vincent Vega wrote:

>On April 08, 2000 at 18:13:16, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>Any product that is on the commercial market can be appropriately
>>tested and reviewed by any reviewer and the results of these tests
>>can then be freely distrubuted to all interested parties which
>>includes the paying public .That is the inalienable right of a
>>consumer irrespective of what may have been said on the licensing
>>agreement.
>
>This is not the case in US. License does matter. See all the
>discussions about DMCA.

It probably is the case in the US. Laws that say otherwise are quite likely
unconstitutional and are likely to be overturned by the courts.

The problem with this is that SSDF is not based in the US. It's Swedish law (and
possibly EU law) that they have to worry about. Does anyone actually know enough
about the relevant Swedish law to say what the rules are in this kind of case?



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