[luau] News - Bruce Perens plans on-stage DMCA violation

[MonMotha]

Warren Togami wrote:
> Open Source Software advocate Bruce Perens plans to violate the DMCA on
> stage at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego on Friday.  While
> he will be breaking the law, he probably wont be arrested because of his
> high profile status.  There would be a high likelihood that he would win the
> court battle (after appeals) and thus set a precedent invalidating the DMCA
> in the Supreme Court.

Or maybe not...

A story on /. says that Bruce has decided not to, apparently under 
pressure from his employer, HP.

"...Bruce Perens has backed out of his plan to demonstrate how to modify 
a DVD player to break region coding (and openly violate the DMCA as 
well) due to pressure from his employer, Hewlett Packard. I wish HP had 
given him their blessing on this, but I guess they have to worry about 
shareholders first..."

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/3735855.htm

--MonMotha