The ACLU tries to dismantle the DMCA.

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26/07/02 The ACLU tries to dismantle the DMCA.
With a bold surprise move the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the House N2H2 software, with the intent of demonstrating the unconstitutionality of the infamous DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). The association proceeds on behalf of Ben Edelman, a twenty-two year programmer who has already worked with the ACLU to the absurd requirement to install filtering software in public libraries (see penalized U.S. libraries that do not censor their content ). The same Edelman presented a report to the Supreme Court inefficiency of filtering software firms SurfControl, N2H2, Websense and Secure Computing, amply demonstrating the flaws. The programs have content filtering in fact most part are based on a list of sites that companies want to keep secret in any way, such as holders of CyberPatrol who sued two employees responsible for writing the utility cphack.exe able to decode the list itself. The ACLU asked a federal judge to declare that the software license N2H2 is a misuse of copyright is contrary to public policy. The main argument to defend this position is of course the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of expression and after the recent defeats of the magazine in 2600 defended dall'EFF, this could be an important rematch.