Warren Togami wrote:
Open Source Software advocate Bruce Perens plans to violate the DMCA on
stage at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego on Friday. While
he will be breaking the law, he probably wont be arrested because of his
high profile status. There would be a high likelihood that he would win the
court battle (after appeals) and thus set a precedent invalidating the DMCA
in the Supreme Court.
Or maybe not...
A story on /. says that Bruce has decided not to, apparently under
pressure from his employer, HP.
"...Bruce Perens has backed out of his plan to demonstrate how to modify
a DVD player to break region coding (and openly violate the DMCA as
well) due to pressure from his employer, Hewlett Packard. I wish HP had
given him their blessing on this, but I guess they have to worry about
shareholders first..."
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/3735855.htm
--MonMotha
