What Is The MPAA Up To Now?

Posted by michael on Wednesday November 15, 2000 @06:30PM from the nothing-good dept.

Phlux writes "I was one of the original group of people sent letters by the MPAA back in March to stop posting DeCSS on the Web. I immediately removed the code from my site at that time. I have now been sent another letter telling me to cease and desist from linking to any other sites on the matter (there is a link to 2600 on the page). The standard list of threats apply. The page, and the text of the letter, can be found here." I think these form letters are sent with little or no human supervision. Which ought to be illegal in and of itself.

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Here too by Anonymous Coward · 2000-11-15 15:28 · Score: 4

We're getting these letters, almost word for word, down here in Australia.

I imagine one day we'll be forced to remove the stuff from our web sites, but for now, decss is not illegal here in Australia, nor is it covered by any legal/court rulings. I have a dread feeling that one day I'll become a test case. I have no idea if I'll have the balls and stamina to go through with it. I hope so.

My site has received two threatening letters, but fortunatly my ISP has a set of balls, and is not only ignoring them, but has started his own mirror too.

I'm anonymous for a reason - I dun wanna provoke the fight before it's due :) I know the mpaa dudes are scouring the web...