[WikiEN-l] Press coverage listing the HD-DVD key

[Todd Allen]

On 5/4/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 04/05/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > We are an organization that would be in terrible trouble if sued for
> > > statutory damages for a thousand infractions of DMCA.
>
> > I think it's blindingly obvious that any serious attempt to do so
> > would result in the destruction of the DMCA, not Wikipedia.
>
>
> Furthermore, from the article now at [[AACS encryption key controversy]]:
>
> Lawyers and other representatives of the entertainment industry,
> including Michael Avery, an attorney for Toshiba Corporation,
> expressed surprise at Digg's decision, but suggested that a suit aimed
> at Digg might merely spread the information more widely. "If you try
> to stick up for what you have a legal right to do, and you're somewhat
> worse off because of it, that's an interesting concept."
> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-revolt3may03,0,1001452.story?page=2&coll=la-default-underdog
>
> It appears to be the first time they've worked out that s00per DMCA
> powers might not be a good thing to throw around without a moment's
> thought.
>
> Now, I'd like you to think what Wikipedia and Wikimedia could do in
> response should thugs with money really try such an odious attack on
> us for writing obviously and blatantly encyclopedic information in an
> article, such as naming the damn key in the article about the damn
> key.
>
>
> - d.
>
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terrible idea anyway?)

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