SunnComm Threatens Suit Over Shift Key Circumvention
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Guys:
Has anyone considered the possiblility that the students published article was a 'Honey Pot' designed to draw a legal response.
If the article had been published with Professor Felten as the author, the article would have been avoided like the plague by the recording industry. Felten can not be intimidated and would like nothing better than another opportunity to challenge this particular interpretation of the law.
Consider what we know.
1. The student's faculty advisor is Ed Felten.
2. The student is a member of Professor Felten's research team.
3. The major product produced by Princeton is lawyers.
The article posted by the student appears to be very well written (as in carefully) and appears to exploit the weaknesses of the DMCA should action be taken against the author.
One just has to wonder who is the agressor here. If SunnComm actually files against the student, the battle is going to take place on ground prepared by the defense team in advance.
This could be a very interesting and instructive case.
Tom
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Anonymous Coward
on Friday October 10, @05:03PM (#1327)
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"3. The major product produced by Princeton is lawyers."
Maybe in a general sense, but its worth noting that Princeton has no law school. I think its true that the report might've been designed with the DMCA in mind.
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Anonymous Coward
on Friday October 10, @11:18AM (#1323)
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First of all, the head line "Sunncomm sues" is misleading as they never filed anything, just announced their intention to sue. Second of all, before this was even posted Sunncomm had already declared they had changed their mind and will not be suing.
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True enough on the headline, I changed it for you. You can read about the retraction on Felten's weblog. [freedom-to-tinker.com] It is true that the entry went up after I posted the story, but I wrote it last night, ah well.
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