On 04/05/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/05/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
We are an organization that would be in terrible trouble if sued for statutory damages for a thousand infractions of DMCA.
I think it's blindingly obvious that any serious attempt to do so would result in the destruction of the DMCA, not Wikipedia.
Furthermore, from the article now at [[AACS encryption key controversy]]:
Lawyers and other representatives of the entertainment industry, including Michael Avery, an attorney for Toshiba Corporation, expressed surprise at Digg's decision, but suggested that a suit aimed at Digg might merely spread the information more widely. "If you try to stick up for what you have a legal right to do, and you're somewhat worse off because of it, that's an interesting concept." http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-revolt3may03,0,1001452.story?page=2&am...
It appears to be the first time they've worked out that s00per DMCA powers might not be a good thing to throw around without a moment's thought.
Now, I'd like you to think what Wikipedia and Wikimedia could do in response should thugs with money really try such an odious attack on us for writing obviously and blatantly encyclopedic information in an article, such as naming the damn key in the article about the damn key.
- d.