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List:       dmca-discuss
Subject:    Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Diebold memos now on http://house.gov
From:       JC --repeal DMCA-- <jwc0 () starpower ! net>
Date:       2003-11-21 18:42:16
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Then it's 2600 all over again. The judge in that case held that posting a URL 
to a site that "facilitated theft" (or similar, I forget the actual words) was 
just as bad as hosting the material yourself. 

The court did leave open the question of a site featuring more than a simple 
link. It hinted that a site with more content than a URL to the offending web 
site (DeCSS in this case) might escape legal sanction. If the Kucinich site is 
not seen in this light, then he is very well susceptible to a DMCA letter. 

Would Diebold then not be required to act against him? If it does not, is then 
not ceding some control over the content? 

Cheers, 
~>jc ** jeffrey w comer 


---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:59:06 -0500
>From: Dan Barrett <dan@offthehill.org>  
>Subject: Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Diebold memos now on http://house.gov  
>To: "jono@networkcommand.com" <jono@microshaft.org>, 
dmca_discuss@lists.microshaft.org
>
>On Friday 21 November 2003 12:39, Jon O. wrote:
>> Dennis Kucinich has outfoxed Diebold by putting some of some of the more 
>> egregious Diebold memos up on his part of the House of Representative web 
>> site, http://www.house.gov/kucinich/issues/voting.htm. Let's see Diebold 
>> serve the House with a DMCA letter.
>
>
>Hang on, he's not that smart: the memos are hosted somewhere at Berkeley, 
>apparently.  He just provides a link to them.
>The truly clever legislator would read portions into the Congressional record 
>directly, from the floor -- perhaps next time the Republicans have another 
>"talk-a-thon."
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