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Subject:    [DMCA_Discuss] O'Reilly: DMCA demonstration goes out with a whimper
From:       Vladimir Katalov <vkatalov () elcomsoft ! com>
Date:       2002-07-29 9:28:00
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By Matt Berger
July 26, 2002 3:59 pm PT

SAN DIEGO - A planned demonstration against a controversial copyright
protection law fizzled Friday as open source luminary Bruce Perens
stepped back from his plans to demonstrate DVD (digital
video/versatile disk) player hacking software, which he said would be
a violation of the controversial 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA).
Perens backed down from the stunt, plans for which were first reported
by IDG News Service, under pressure from Hewlett-Packard, where Perens
is employed as a Linux developer and advocate.
"Some of you came here to see me taken away in chains ... but that
isn't going to happen," he said. "Obviously, I could still do it, but
that would damage HP's Linux program, which would probably be a bad
idea."
Martin Fink, who is Perens' boss at HP and heads up the company's
Linux efforts, spoke before Perens' presentation to discuss why the
company asked him to back down.
"I have a thing about my employees going to jail ... and I don't want
Bruce to go to jail," Fink said. "Hopefully he'll thank me for that
one day."
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