[WikiEN-l] Fwd: IDG press enquiry regarding the HD-DVD controversy

[Fred Bauder]

I would not assume that a money judgment could not be obtained from anyone who publishes the code. Thus I have been quite aggressive about removing it. We could have done more.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Lau [mailto:netsnipe at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2007 12:07 AM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: IDG press enquiry regarding the HD-DVD controversy
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>Today I was approached by a journalist (who is a colleague of a friend
>of mine from Uni) at IDG regarding our position on the publication of
>the HD-DVD decryption key.
>
>As far as I know:
>* the [[WP:OFFICE]] has so far refused to intervene in the matter and
>* the departure of Brad Patrick means we currently have no general counsel
>* the Foundation has recieved no DMCA take down notices regarding the matter
>
>For the last 24 hours, we've been censoring the HD-DVD key from
>articles, talk pages, user pages and signatures and relying on
>draconian measures such as full protection of [[HD-DVD]] and blocks
>with the justification that we were awaiting official guidance.
>
>Now that the desperately needed legal advice is apparently not
>forthcoming, it may eventually appear to outsiders that we are
>paranoid of what the AACS/MPAA may do to us instead of only being
>cautious. I am starting to feel uncomfortable that many administrators
>such as myself may be acting unilaterally over the matter based upon
>our own personal (mis)interpretations of the DMCA instead of enforcing
>an official stance or community consensus.
>
>So how exactly should we respond to the press regarding this?
>
>Yours sincerely,
>Andrew Lau (Netsnipe)
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: mitchell_bingemann at idg.com.au <mitchell_bingemann at idg.com.au>
>Date: May 3, 2007 10:27 AM
>Subject: Re: Fwd: HD-DVD controversy
>To: netsnipe at gmail.com
>
>
>Hi Andrew,
>
>I'm a colleague of Liz's and was following the whole HD-DVD debacle.
>Just hoping for a Wikipedia update on the whole thing, where do you
>guys stand on it now? Cheeers,
>
>Mitchell Bingemann
>Journalist
>IDG Online
>(02) 9902 2711
>
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