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from: mike
date: 2007-04-28 07:26:38
subject: Re: Spy Act Only Protects Vendors and Their DRM

From: mike 

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:57:36 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>news:462e56ed{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>  (2) a discrete interaction with a protected computer by a provider of
>> computer software solely to determine whether the user of the computer is
>> authorized to use such software, that occurs upon -- (A) initialization of
>> the software; or (B) an affirmative request by the owner or authorized
>> user for an update of, addition to, or technical service for, the
>> software.
>
>They just wrote an exception for sony spyware.


Yup.

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