That seemed short-lived. Both links to the Playfair project at Sarovar are dead: http://sarovar.org/projects/playfair/ and http://playfair.sarovar.org/ The search function doesn't come up with anything either...
Has there been any further news on this? --Bob. This is what R. A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said about "<nettime> PlayFair > Sarovar" on 12 Apr 2004 at 13:42 > > --- begin forwarded text > > > To: nettime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: kevin lahoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: <nettime> PlayFair > Sarovar > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:51:11 -0400 > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: kevin lahoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sarovar.org is India's first portal to host projects under Free/Open > source licenses. It is located in Trivandrum, India and hosted at > Asianet data center. Sarovar.org is customised, installed and > maintained by Linuxense as part of their community services and > sponsored by River Valley Technologies. > > From Sarovar's < http://sarovar.org/ > Latest News: "After a short > "vacation" thanks to a Cease and Desist letter from Apple, we're back > online. Many thanks to Sarovar for hosting us.. -PlayFair " > > Sarovar now hosts The PlayFair project < http://playfair.sarovar.org/ > > which SourceForge has declined in order to avoid tangling with > Apple's decision to go DMCA on their ass < > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/09/1554203 >. Like something > from a Gibson novel, I wouldn't doubt if Sarovar rises to meet more > than another of these occasions in the near future. > > And so, we have more contentious open source code hosted outside of > the US in order to circumvent unfavorable legal processes. > > Offtshoring in itself is not all that new (another example: < > http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/ >). Here is how this one > gets interesting: A big guy - Apple, goes a little sour, another > (kind of) big guy - SourceForge, takes the easy route, and then an > offshore repository stands in. > > With all of this, one thing that should not be ignored is that > SourceForge should be shamed for not holding itself stronger. In a way > SourceForge's decline of PlayFair and non-usage of the Safe Harbor > Provision Act < http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/ > is an admit > of defeat and a failure to stand up for one's (community's) rights. > > What comes out of this? > > Well, maybe Apple wins because they avoid a chance of being tarnished. > Imagine what consumer level acknowledgment of the reality of Apple > marketing a clean yet gritty 'Garage Band' motif (with all that punk > rock implies) while at the same time sleeping with DRM, recently RIAA, > and now DMCA, could entail... One can easily see that Apple is dancing > itself into a bit of a gamble. But then again, what does an Ipod > zombie care about these acronyms anyway? > > What does SourceForge get? Not much. This only makes it easier for > them to weasle out of the next situation that comes up. Not to mention > they also missed a good chance to join PlayFair in telling Apple > what's what. > > k > > http://sarovar.org/ http://sarovar.org/projects/playfair/ > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/09/1554203 > http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/ > http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/ > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/09/playfair_dmca_takedown/ > > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets more > # info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- end forwarded text > > > -- > ----------------- > R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 > Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve > respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the > world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, > 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' >
