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Emmanuel Goldstein in the news
In keeping with the theme of finding interrelationships among our readings
and our issues as they play out, I give you this article about DVD
copying. Notice that one of the defendants is Emmanuel Goldstein. Now
where have you read that name recently?
Enjoy the snow and the day away from campus.
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:11:16 -0500
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33716,00.html
Digital Copyright Law on Trial
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
3:00 a.m. 18.Jan.2000 PST
Most people might be just a trifle
intimidated if sued by the world's biggest
film studios and accused of endangering
"the future of American movies."
Not Emmanuel Goldstein.
The online firebrand and publisher of the
venerable 2600 hacker quarterly says he
isn't fazed by his new defendant status.
"It's not about piracy," he says. It's
about the right to modify software.
Instead of being in court in New York for
a hearing Thursday, he'll be on his way to
California to celebrate Kevin Mitnick's
release from prison.
But Goldstein might still have something
to worry about.
It isn't just that one of the largest,
oldest, and meanest law firms in town,
Proskauer Rose, is representing the eight
studios who claim he illegally distributed a
useful, albeit controversial, DVD-copying
program.
Goldstein's real problem is that the suits
may have a very good case against him
and the other two defendants. A related
lawsuit is taking place in a California
superior court where a hearing is
scheduled on Tuesday.
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