- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:17:15 -0800
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
I asked: > > 3) Why is nobody worried about access control being a DMCA-covered > issue? Not just for fonts, but for any resources that use it? Is it > because the answer to my question #2 above is "yes"? Boris Z responded: > Because there is no issue of additional controls on access here. The > data is public (modulo cookies, etc). If you access it via wget (or > heck, telnet to port 80) you will get it (again, modulo cookies). > Since > the data is only being exposed to those explicitly authorized to get it > (everyone, the user with cookies, etc, depending on the site > configuration) there is no circumvention of anything going on. > > At least as far as I can see. And what stops somebody from writing a patch to an open source browser that changes that? That is, exactly the same scenario that was posited as being an issue with obfuscation.... Cheers, T
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