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

[David Gerard]

On 04/05/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sometimes the law is a pain, sometimes it is wrong. But someday it
> might be the law, and only the law, that is keeping us from doing
> something utterly terrible ... Some days I think we're already there.
> I hope you keep this in mind the next time you suggest we *should*
> ignore the law because you personally think it would be righteous to
> do so, and because you think we could leverage our PR might to get
> away with it.


I have yet to see an argument that quoting the key is actually illegal
in and of itself, particularly given the counter-argument that naming
the key in the article about the key would be blatantly academic and
educational speech that it would be unconstitutional to suppress.


- d.