[Foundation-l] 09-f9-...

Todd Allen toddmallen at gmail.com
Mon May 7 21:53:45 UTC 2007


On 5/7/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Yes.  We are not discussing the philosophy behind this and why it should not
> be so.  No matter what you discuss here, it will be a violation of the
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA> and
> will still be breaking the law.
>
> Cbrown1023
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Martin
> (Pathoschild)
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 5:31 PM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 09-f9-...
>
> Hello,
>
> Wikipedia is not a experiment in civil disobedience. Whether or not
> the law is absurd, it is nonetheless law. Feel free to convince your
> congressperson to get it struck down or militate elsewhere; don't make
> Wikimedia content illegal in the US and the European Union just
> because you disagree with the law.
>
> Yours cordially,
> Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
>
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Link to caselaw or court order, please?

The DMCA does indeed prohibit distribution of circumvention devices. I
can't find a thing in it about "numeric values".

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