On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 20:01 +0100, David Landgren wrote:
> I am well aware of the futility of the quest, what with Goggle's cache 
> in the short term, and things like the Internet Archive and the Wayback 
> machine in the long term. Nevertheless we have to appear to respond 
> actively to something like this.

Interesting point.  I guess there are two schools of thought:

1) Delete it, knowing that anyone that wants it can get it.  The
behemoth lawyers are happy knowing that they killed the rebels, and we
laugh at them because they didn't really kill anything except their own
time and money.(*1)

2) Don't delete it, and defeat the lawyers in court.  The end result is
that everyone can get the module, and that this sort of thing doesn't
happen again.

I'm not really sure which school of thought I subscribe to.  I will let
the list decide :)

(*1) Tangent 1: is is cheaper to pay a lawyer to send out C&Ds, or is it
cheaper to pay a programmer to put a password / captcha on the data they
don't want scraped?  I would be (pleasantly) surprised if programmers
are more expensive than lawyers...

> PS: I kept a copy of Time::Cubic if you're interested :)

<insert picture of a cat saying DO NOT WANT> :)

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

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