[WikiEN-l] HD DVD key mess - OFFICE/Foundation?

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Todd Allen wrote:
> Well, my personal feelings on copyright, especially as involves
> personal not-for-profit copying, involve something to the effect of
> "Long live DVD Jon, Linus Torvalds, and Richard Stallman, and limit
> the damn term to 5 years, no one else profits from their work for life
> plus 70!" Just to make sure that's out in the open.
> 
> That being said. Wikipedia has a nice DMCA compliance notice on the
> page. -If-, and only if, Wikipedia gets a DMCA notice regarding that
> string, we could temporarily take it down (in a legitimate OFFICE
> action), while the community is notified what's going on and asked
> what to do. If so, they post it on Chilling Effects, like everyone
> else does, and we talk about the issue. And we watch whoever sent it
> get crucified all over the place. And indeed, once that article hits
> Slashdot and Digg and X million blogs, one might just find that a lot
> of "anonymous people" are willing to throw in a few bucks for legal
> expenses, on fighting that one.
> 
> But in the meantime, if we can reliably source it (and if we can't
> today, we can tomorrow!), publish the damn string. It's a -number-.
> Yes, we should generally go along with the legal system. But not those
> who are hyperventilating that there is any -realistic- possibility
> that a number, a string of digits, can be forbidden by law.
> 
> Seraphimblade
> 

Sorry, I thought we were an encyclopedia, not a free-speech campaign group?

Exactly how does publishing the string, as opposed to writing an article 
about it, further our declared aims?

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