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In lugnet.lego.direct, Matthew Miller writes:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > It may be and it may not be. Intellectual Property case law is changing
> > every day. Months ago, it was not illegal to post links to things
> > containing illegally obtained information. I seem to remember hearing or
> > reading somewhere recently that some court somewhere recently decided the
> > opposite.
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> No such decision yet. The DeCSS case is in progress right now, and those of
> us who care about freedom of speech and the web in general sure hope it'll
> come down the other way. In fact, an important question in that case is
> whether source code is speech, with the strong implication (from both the
> defendants and the court) that if it is decided to be speech (as opposed to
> being equivalent to a mechanical device), prohibiting linking runs against
> first amendment issues.
James Powell mentioned the bad news already on another thread (or was it
another sub-branch of this huge thread?), but it bears repeating here for
posterity...
Here's a link to the Slashdot story for those who haven't seen it yet:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/17/1827208
--Todd
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| Todd - what the judge said appears to be totally useless and irrelevant to the case that was being judged. I reckon they'll appeal though. Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FzKMoI.92M@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) No such decision yet. The DeCSS case is in progress right now, and those of us who care about freedom of speech and the web in general sure hope it'll come down the other way. In fact, an important question in that case is whether source code (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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