Dr Lessig tells a story. He wrote a scholarly paper. He launched a copy of Morpheus and put his paper in the shared folder. Went home for the weekend. On Monday he comes into the office and his computer is disconnected. Stanford security had paid him a visit. "That's illegal," they said. Heh. He's the expert on what's legal. He wrote the stuff. He wanted to share it. Gotcha. [Scripting News]
12:10:54 PM What do you think? ( Thoughts)Who linked? []
2600's DMCA Challenge Blocked. A federal appeals court thwarts, yet again, the hacker quarterly's attempt to have dismissed the decision that it is unlawfully distributing a DVD-descrambling utility. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]