On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:46 PM, jtnire <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry folks, > > I should probably mention my main area of concern a bit better. > > I have no doubt that WINE is a clean-room implementation. This is not what I'm worried about. > > It's the fact that there has been some debate about "Circumventing Copy Protection", as far as the DMCA and EU CD are concerned anyways. > > Does WINE do this? > > Thanks > It doesn't. Simply. It will not allow you to (by intended function) circumvent any copy protection. This is distinct from users circumventing copy protection themselves which is possible under all open systems including Windows which Wine is attempting to implement. This is not a legal concern of Wine or its users and should never be under any sane laws. With regard to your link I think a post from 2003 is very much out of context with todays Wine and the current general understanding of the DMCA. Furthermore, that post is confusing and I suggest flawed. If it was a breach of the DMCA to implement a system to allow DRM to run as Wine does, surely Windows is also in breach as it does the same task? I am not a lawyer but I'd say you don't need to be one to discard worries of this nature.
