Hi everyone,
Today I was approached by a journalist (who is a colleague of a friend of mine from Uni) at IDG regarding our position on the publication of the HD-DVD decryption key.
As far as I know: * the [[WP:OFFICE]] has so far refused to intervene in the matter and * the departure of Brad Patrick means we currently have no general counsel * the Foundation has recieved no DMCA take down notices regarding the matter
For the last 24 hours, we've been censoring the HD-DVD key from articles, talk pages, user pages and signatures and relying on draconian measures such as full protection of [[HD-DVD]] and blocks with the justification that we were awaiting official guidance.
Now that the desperately needed legal advice is apparently not forthcoming, it may eventually appear to outsiders that we are paranoid of what the AACS/MPAA may do to us instead of only being cautious. I am starting to feel uncomfortable that many administrators such as myself may be acting unilaterally over the matter based upon our own personal (mis)interpretations of the DMCA instead of enforcing an official stance or community consensus.
So how exactly should we respond to the press regarding this?
Yours sincerely, Andrew Lau (Netsnipe)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: mitchell_bingemann@idg.com.au mitchell_bingemann@idg.com.au Date: May 3, 2007 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: HD-DVD controversy To: netsnipe@gmail.com
Hi Andrew,
I'm a colleague of Liz's and was following the whole HD-DVD debacle. Just hoping for a Wikipedia update on the whole thing, where do you guys stand on it now? Cheeers,
Mitchell Bingemann Journalist IDG Online (02) 9902 2711