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DMCA Forces Cox To Censor Changelog?
Ross Vandegrift writes: "Alan Cox released 2.2.20pre10 today, which includes security fixes. He is refusing to indicate what security holes have been fixed, as Unix-style permissions could be used as an anti-circumvention device. The thread starts here. " It'd be great if people could read the threads here and try to figure out what is going on. I'm a little lost, but it looks like he's being overzealous.
"but it looks like he's being overzealous."
Alan Cox? Overzealous? Nah! I can't even imagine.
Why bother.
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Absolutely. In fact, any doubt in my mind about the nature of DeCSS's programmers and users was erased when I saw the rapid appearance of point-and-click Windows programs that allowed, nay, encouraged the pirating of DVD movies. Certainly, my opinion is not helped by the fact that as soon as the DeCSS shit hit the fan, everyone on Slashdot was calling for everyone else to make as many pirate copies of DVDs as possible, in order to commit "civil disobedience" (a polite word for "stealing other people's shit").
He is simply a non-target and he needs to stop pretending that the DMCA affects him.
This is especially true since he isn't even a US citizen. In fact, I would wager to guess that this unhygenic fool is not only advocating the global application of US laws abroad, but only ends up hurting the people he's trying to serve in the first place. Why can't the socially inept stick with what they're good at, like accounting and programming?
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Gotta love the inter[national]net...
We started it! Get yer own!
If Cox isn't willing to risk the heat, or at worst is lashing out against American kernel developers out of spite against American laws, then he's no longer qualified to run the changelog.
Linux programming should *never* be subverted to the political whims of a single individual. If this is the game that Cox is going to play under the rubric that he *might* be sued or arrested, then the logical step is *not* to exclude Americans but rather to pass the torch onto someone with bigger cojones. The fact that he refuses to do so is a clear indication that he's using his position to enforce his own political views at the expense of American programmers.
Screw him. If he wants to jerk around then he can do it alone with his right hand. Only an asshole would drag everyone else along on his own personal crusade.
Max
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