[ale] Redhat patch and DMCA

[Kilroy, Chris]

moreover, nobody is going to be prosecuted for reading those release notes.



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->Michael,
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->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
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->John
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->> 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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