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Skriven 2007-05-03 16:26:56 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Will everyone on the net get an MPAA cease and desist order
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com>

Can one get arrested for wearing a t-shirt with the encryption key printed on
it?

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-05-03/#6725

Everybody knows Digg.com and Google. Yesterday, following the release of the
encryption key supposed to protect HD-DVD contents, lawyers acting for the MPAA
and Advanced Access Content System (AACS) have sent dozens of cease and desist
letters, even threatening administrators to take their websites down with a
DMCA notice.

While trying to obey to request, Digg founders were heavily criticized by
community members pushing Digg Staff to change their mind and leave message
referring to the encryption key online. So Digg is getting ready to fight with
the AACS. Lawyers went even further by trying to force Google to stop
publishing links/messages containing and/or related to the encryption key;
something almost totally impossible to do taking into account that web users
have already found ways to communicate the key in an almost non identifiable
format...

One can already order T-shirt with the encryption key printed on... as it was
the case when the CSS key was cracked.

For sure by attacking a popular community website, the AACS is getting ready to
fight a symbol of the internet community. Where does the right for information
start and end? If suing the person who hacked and/or released the key can be
explained by the law, how to avoid the public to get the information available
on the net?

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