[ale] Redhat patch and DMCA

[John Wells]

Michael,

Fight the power.  Read the notes.  If someone ever decided to bring
charges against a person for reading those Red Hat notes, it'd be the
biggest strike against the DMCA yet, and very convincing grounds for
challenging its foundations in a court of law.  Noone will pursue you,
because it would force them to acknowledge how silly/sad the DMCA is.  I
think this was exactly Red Hat's point.

<rage against the machine background music> F the Establishment </rage
against the machine background music> ;-p

John

> I was reading through a Infoworld article and they get
> into a kernel patch that redhat released for some
> security issue.....but you can't read the release notes
> because it may be a breach of the DMCA.  So what does
> one do?  Just patch w/o reading the notes?  Couldn't
> the descriptiveness of the notes be vague enough to
> give those wanting to patch their kernels some
> information.  Here's the site I went to to see the
> notes but I decided I didn't want to go to jail for 5
> years and pay a fine of $500,000.
>
> http://www.thefreeworld.net/non-US/
>
> Michael Smith
> AIM: MikAtlanta
> MSN: MikeAshtonSmith
> email: msmith at mikeandmel.com
>
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