Re: trial panic?

2000-08-19 Thread James A. Donald
Thanks Tom Vogt, for defending freedom of speech. This is a great precedent. The judge issues a court order against UN-NAMED individuals in eleven countries (effectively everyone in the world, whether under US jurisdiction or not) prohibiting anyone from disseminating widely available and

Re: trial panic?

2000-08-18 Thread Tom Vogt
Benjamin Huth Byer wrote: does anyone know the traffic on 2600.com ? I wouldn't be surprised if they get the peak of their life. No, and nobody ever will. The MPAA tried to make an issue of this -- "surely DeCSS is making you popular!" The response was that 2600 keeps no logs and does

trial panic?

2000-08-18 Thread tom
it seems the trial result will do the opposite of what the MPAA is hoping for, at least in the short term. if the MPAA truly believes, as judge kaplan put it, that decss is an epidemic spreading around the web, then the trial result gave it a giant boost. I'm running a high-profile DeCSS site,

Re: trial panic?

2000-08-18 Thread Benjamin Huth Byer
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know the traffic on 2600.com ? I wouldn't be surprised if they get the peak of their life. No, and nobody ever will. The MPAA tried to make an issue of this -- "surely DeCSS is making you popular!" The response was that 2600 keeps