On 5/3/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/3/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
It is nearly inevitable that this is going to be a case where all MPAA's horses won't be able to put humpty dumpty back together again, and after it becomes definitively obvious that is the case of affairs, and the number indeed has spread far, wide and into authoritative information outlets, we can safely go with the de facto non-enforcement of what rights (or not, as the case may in the de jure sense have been) MPAA might have had to prevent disclosure.
Except the MPAA are going to have to think about the future. There are other such numbers that they do not wish to become public. If they think they can win such lawsuits sueing say the 10 highest profile distrubuters would be a fairly logical activity.
-- geni
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Or, they might realize that such an action would just encourage people to crack the rest of the keys, and make damn sure they get spread quickly again. 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.
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.