On 5/3/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Or, they might realize that such an action would just encourage people to crack the rest of the keys,
Doubtful. Going by the time it took to find one. And there is the slightly different Blu-ray system
and make damn sure they get spread quickly again.
How? If every large information carrier knows they will get sued if they carry the code they will not do so in future which will make spreading it much harder. At the moment the psude brave can ah "stick it to the man" with no aparent fear. Win half a dozen court cases against those spreading it and things will change. Websites like dig would not fold to their userbase because they would know that doing so would likely result in them ceaseing to exist.
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.
I doubt they have had time to put lawsuits together yet.
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.
No but there are other numbers. If the MPAA doesn't act then people will not fear publishing those either.