IP: Civil Disobedience against DMCA

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay () pobox com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:37:36 +0530
To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Civil Disobedience against DMCA

from slashdot:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/24/0415256

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 24, @05:28PM
from the performance-art dept.

cyber_rigger writes: "From this article at infoworld [1] Bruce Perens said
he plans to break the DMCA during a presentation on digital rights
management (DRM) Friday afternoon at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in
San Diego. Technically, under the DMCA, Perens' explanation of the
technology makes him liable for a fine of US$500,000. You have to admire
his spirit."

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/23/020723hnperens.xml

Udhay

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