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

[Andrew Lih]

On 5/4/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Profile wise it is big. This has nothing to do with the amount of
> > compensation the MPAA would win but with scareing people into
> > following the law in future.
>
> It would be crippling to our mission to roll over so easily.

This is assuming the mission of Wikipedia and WMF is to stand up
against bad laws the community does not like. However, it is not.

As Geni said, Wikipedia is a big target because fo the top 10, biggest
reference site, yada yada. In that sense, the community has been one
of the more responsible folks out there. I'm not even sure the NY
Times knows the signifiance of publishing the 16 bytes on their site.

FYI, the following is a good summary of the community consensus (at
least the en: sysop irc-enabled consensus on the day of this issue),
penned by some of the folks in this thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Keyspam

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)