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

[George Herbert]

On 5/3/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's something wrong, Fred, when an educational resource is scared
> to publish (or even mention in discussion besides oblique references
> to "that key" or "the number") a -numeral-.

That battle was lost when it became illegal to produce or publish any
technology designed to circumvent copy protection.

Unlike some of the other subject specific free speech restrictions
(copies of money, child porn, truly obscene materials per US defn,
etc), this restriction is offensive to me and extremely silly given
how easily and widespread people are republishing the info.  However,
that's the law.

I hope eventually to see the law here overturned.  Until that day,
organizations need to be sensitive to violations of it.  WP gains
nothing from taking up the fight here.  It's not an encyclopedia
function to distribute copy protection breaking software or keys.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com