{"id":"00905","group":"easy-ham-2","checksum":{"type":"MD5","value":"defebe39d659693316e71ad1cd70b127"},"text":"From <EMAIL>  Mon Jul 29 11:28:43 2002\nReturn-Path: <<EMAIL>>\nDelivered-To: y<EMAIL>.netnoteinc.com\nReceived: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])\n\tby phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04114440FF\n\tfor <jm@localhost>; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:25:25 -0400 (EDT)\nReceived: from phobos [127.0.0.1]\n\tby localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0)\n\tfor jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:25:25 +0100 (IST)\nReceived: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org\n    (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6QIY1r17349 for <<EMAIL>>;\n    Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:34:01 +0100\nReceived: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix)\n    with ESMTP id 21031294103; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:32:07 -0700 (PDT)\nDelivered-To: <EMAIL>\nReceived: from crank.slack.net (slack.net [166.84.151.181]) by xent.com\n    (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387952940B0 for <<EMAIL>>; Fri,\n    26 Jul 2002 11:31:29 -0700 (PDT)\nReceived: by crank.slack.net (Postfix, from userid 596) id 7B2533ED63;\n    Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:31:48 -0400 (EDT)\nReceived: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crank.slack.net\n    (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B673ECEB for <<EMAIL>>; Fri,\n    26 Jul 2002 14:31:48 -0400 (EDT)\nFrom: Tom <<EMAIL>>\nTo: <EMAIL>\nSubject: Perens Backs Out of Stunt\nMessage-Id: <<EMAIL>7261430130.13392-<EMAIL>>\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII\nSender: fork-admin@xent.com\nErrors-To: fork-admin@xent.com\nX-Beenthere: <EMAIL>\nX-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11\nPrecedence: bulk\nList-Help: <mailto:<EMAIL>?subject=help>\nList-Post: <mailto:<EMAIL>>\nList-Subscribe: <http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork>, <mailto:<EMAIL>?subject=subscribe>\nList-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare <fork.xent.com>\nList-Unsubscribe: <http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork>,\n    <mailto:<EMAIL>?subject=unsubscribe>\nList-Archive: <http://xent.com/pipermail/fork/>\nDate: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:31:48 -0400 (EDT)\n\nhttp://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/3735855.htm\nPosted on Thu, Jul. 25, 2002\n\nCopyright Law Thwarts Open Source Confab Demo\nPosted by <NAME>\n\n\<NAME> was going to demonstrate a modified DVD player at this week's\nOpen Source gathering in San Diego. He'd planned to show (Infoworld) how a\nDVD player with its regional coding disabled could play DVDs with\ndifferent regional codes.\n\nPerens was going to do this in violation, he believed, of the Digital\nMillennium Copyright Act, which bans the circumvention of technological\nmethods to protect copyrighted material from uses the owner doesn't want.\nAnd the possibility of legal trouble led his employer, Hewlett-Packard, to\nask him not to do the demonstration.\n\nHP funds Perens to pursue a variety of free software projects. He was\nwilling to take the legal risks himself, he told me today, but HP worried\nthat it would be \"a more juicy target,\" the kind of deep pockets that\nmight make the entertainment cartel drool. In that context it's\nunderstandable why HP would be concerned, though I wish the company would\ntake a stand on the right side of this issue.\n\nSo while Perens is going to talk about the DMCA's pernicious impact on\nthings like free software, he's not going to give his demonstration. A\nshame, but that's how things are going these days.\n\nHollywood is winning, folks. You are losing. And you'd better start caring\n\n\n\nhttp://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork\n\n\n"}