On 5/3/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Or, they might realize that such an action would just
encourage people
to crack the rest of the keys,
Doubtful. Going by the time it took to find one. And there is the
slightly different Blu-ray system
and make damn sure they get spread
quickly again.
How? If every large information carrier knows they will get sued if
they carry the code they will not do so in future which will make
spreading it much harder. At the moment the psude brave can ah "stick
it to the man" with no aparent fear. Win half a dozen court cases
against those spreading it and things will change. Websites like dig
would not fold to their userbase because they would know that doing so
would likely result in them ceaseing to exist.
Now, of course, I'm not generally one to give the
MPAA
much credit for such common sense, and treating them like a
potentially dangerous lunatic does make a bit of sense here. So, let's
see what everyone does. If they start suing Wired, or Digg, or anyone
else, we should probably err on the side of caution for a bit.
I doubt they have had time to put lawsuits together yet.
However, having a quick look, the NYT blog even has
links to the
Youtube video of it, as well as to Digg, which at the time they wrote
it has roughly eleventy thousand mentions. So my read on it is, if the
NYT and all the rest aren't too worried, we don't have much to worry
about either. The number's out there, and there's not a snowball's
chance that any lawsuit or anything else can change that.
No but there are other numbers. If the MPAA doesn't act then people
will not fear publishing those either.
--
geni