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

[Dean Fujioka]

I guess maybe he's not going to do it

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

conference updates here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2002/


dean


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.
>
>Last year Russian programmer Dmitri Skylarov was arrested while visiting
>America for writing software in Russia that is legal under Russian law.
>Adobe took offense to his actions and had him arrested under the DMCA.  He
>was arrested mainly because those in power thought that the American public
>wouldn't be outraged because he is a foreign Russian (lingering Cold War
>anger) hacker (evil person who breaks into computers).
>
>Ironically, if Bruce Perens is NOT arrested after this announced DMCA
>violation does this not clearly show that America is the land of selective
>prosection based upon your economic and social status?
>
>http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/23/020723hnperens.xml
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