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

[David Goodman]

As every day goes by the absurdity of trying to take down a reference
to material already known to every person on earth capable of
utilizing the information becomes more and more absurd, and we may
already be at that point. Whatever we may have in wikipedia from this
point on does not actually contribute to the circumvention of the
protection -- and it never really did even at the beginning.

At this point deleting the information would also been the removal of
it from numerous mailing lists, internet archives, mirrors, news
sites, etc etc., and there would be no way of preventing people from
other countries from posting it again and again, without filtering the
internet to the extent that some other countries do. The comparison
with China will not escape people. The moment some conventionally
printed source reprints some of these exchanges will mark the end of
even that.

The information is also within the capacity of most humans to
memorize. cf. Fahrenheit 451.        DGG

On 5/4/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/4/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I think we're missing another question as well here.
> > > What are they going to sue -for-?
>
> > To put the fear of the law into people (remember technically this can
> > get into criminal territory as well as civil).
>
>
> I am cognizant of the fact that we are not actually dealing with
> rational actors here. They have the corporate equivalent of batshit
> crazy right now because their *one dream* has been revealed to be
> snake oil yet again. They're angry, in denial and blaming and lashing
> out at everyone in the world except themselves. That's another reason
> I want to wait a few weeks so that someone else can spend the effort
> to deal them the smackdown if they don't back down.
>
>
> - d.
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.