On 04/05/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
The 2600 decision, according to the text of the decision, was almost entirely based on the fact that 2600 was explicitly "trafficking" in circumvention tools, since it was pretty much a "hey download this tool here!" type of link. The court took great pains to note that any sort of academic or educational discussion of circumvention tools would be protected. Basically 2600 didn't even pretend to have a veneer of academic discussion, so it was a completely different case; if _Wired_ were taken to court and lost, that would be much more similar to our situation. In fact in the years since the 2600 case, many dozens of people have published such keys and circumvention devices in academic and educational contexts, and none has lost a court case.
None has lost one - has any been put through one?
- d.