At 04:09 PM 8/30/00 -0400, Greg Newby wrote:
>I was forced to remove my copy of the DeCSS code this spring by UNC as
>a result of a complaint by the MPAA.
>
>Now, the MPAA is trying to force me to remove a LINK to the code from
>my class page. This is enough to make me want to throw up.
>
First, You have the right to contest any copyright infringement they
allege to your ISP (UNC in this case). Second, linking isn't copyright
infringement.
Type the link out in english, with instructions on copying and
pasting into the location-bar of a browser.
or distract them:
Post/Link to files named DeCSS but not containing the code they're
concerned with.
or confuse them:
Post DeCSS under a different file name, possibly changing the .zip
to avoid recognition by filesize. Include enough text on your page
to help the search engines. (will the next MPAA target be search
engines, which will be prohibited from indexing DeCSS?)
Of course your UNC sysops will not be amused, unless they are
sympathetic, and you may need to terminate your UNC-based crusade
to keep from annoying them excessively, or spending too much of your time
explaining the law (and its abusers) to the university legal staff. There
are plenty of other hosting sites, and universities are soft targets.
..in fact, it is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
--Jargon File 4.2.2
