[WikiEN-l] HD DVD key mess - OFFICE/Foundation?

[Anthony]

On 5/2/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 2, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Anthony wrote:
>
> > Can an employee of the foundation please speak up and clarify whether
> > or not we are allowed to publish this key?
>
> Please don't do this, employee of the Foundation.
>
> David is pretty much right here - the issue right now isn't legality,
> it's notability. We're not a newspaper. Wait a month, see how this
> plays out, and then we can write the right article. Any article
> written right now isn't an encyclopedia article, it's a piece of
> Internet activism about the right to publish the string "09 F9 11 02
> 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0." Which, as that last sentence
> demonstrates, I'm all for.
>
> But Wikipedia isn't the place to do that now.
>
> If the Foundation steps in, the message becomes "the issue here is a
> legal one," and an important editorial judgment is erased.
>
I completely disagree with your suggestion that this key is not
notable.  It's not worthy of its own article, true, but if it is legal
to publish then it should be published in an article on dvd
encryption.

Anthony