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from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2007-05-03 16:26:56
subject: Will everyone on the net get an MPAA cease and desist order

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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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