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| | Programmers' & Academics' Amici Brief in NY MPAA DeCSS Case (Jan. 26, 2001) |
 | | Computer codes are text languages, as expressive as any text language, with dialects, grammar structures and nuances, and thus are entitled to the same level of First Amendment scrutiny as any natural text language, such as English. |
 | | So it is with most computer code: a human must give the command to interpret or compile the source code, and even if the code has been compiled as a binary executable file, a human must give the command to execute it. |
 | | With commendable candor, he readily admitted that the implication of his view that the spoken language and computer code versions were substantially similar was not necessarily that the preliminary injunction was too broad; rather, the logic of his position was that it was either too broad or too narrow. |
| www.eff.org /IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010126_ny_progacad_amicus.html (6549 words) |
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