[Sheflug] DMCA

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

This snippet from Debian weekly news might just interest some people 
other than the Debian fans...


Ceasing Security with the DMCA? CNET News.com [3]reports about an
incident invoking the controversial [4]Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA). Hewlett Packard has threatened to sue a team of
researchers who published a vulnerability in Tru64 Unix. Since HP
distributes Debian and two members of the Debian Security Team are
U.S. citizens, are they in danger of a similar threat? One week later,
HP released a [5]press release saying that they will not use the DMCA
to stifle research or impede the flow of information that would
benefit their customers and improve their system security.

 3. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html
 4. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
 5. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947740.html

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Thanks



Richard
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