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Re: [CP-Legal] ZDNET: "Hackers settle Cyber Patrol suit"

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:37:57 -0500 Send reply to: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: John Young <jya@PIPELINE.COM> Subject: Re: [CP-Legal] ZDNET: "Hackers settle Cyber Patrol suit" To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

The settlement by the hackers is neat. They are out of the case and their brilliant hack is freely available. Not their problem now. Recall that two of the MPAA defendants in New York also settled. One is now offering his invention of a variation on Gnutella which goes farther than one-day wonder Gnutella ever did, as are other rapid evolutions of copyright industry attacks. The WSJ today reports on the probably "unstoppable" spread of unhierarchic hacks. No control, no center, no censor, David, authoritarian parents have lost by failing to see their children eating apples of knowledge. Time to change missions to new positions, say, promoting censorware for parents unable to face the reality of their own homes and cannot bear to think of what's happening in their neighbor's.

Presumably the Boston judge will issue an injunction, then wash his hands. Then he's out of it like the hackers. Mattel can declare a Viet Nam victory, give its attorneys a hero's medal. Ignore reality, neat mirror. ------- End of forwarded message -------

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http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2475125,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01

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