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Chilling Effects Cease & Desist Clearinghouse

Posted by Hemos on from the good-idea dept.

Wendy Seltzer writes: "The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, EFF, and other major law school clinics have launched ChillingEffects.org to combat the chilling effect of Cease & Desist letters with ungrounded legal threats. (Slashdot readers got a site preview in the story on the Bnetd Cease & Desist, already in our database.) If you have received a Cease & Desist, we invite you to add it to the database, where law students will analyze the legalese and annotate the C&Ds with Frequently Asked Questions and answers. The site already offers several sets of general legal FAQs."

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  1. How Long.. by Heem · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long until this site itself gets it's own Cease and Desist for whatever unfounded reason?

    Lost his faith in democracy,

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  2. I agree completely by Exmet+Paff+Daxx · · Score: 4, Funny
    To do my best to prove to the Movie Industry that their attempts at scaring everyone is futile, I am proceeding on a path of complete and total Civil Disobedience:

    • I have obtained a DVD copier (at great expense) and I frequently rent movies and copy them so I can view them later, like so:
    • I use DeCSS-derived software to copy DVDs to my Hard Drive and later to DVD, only this time encoding free!
    • I hand out free copies of DVD movies everywhere I can to as many people as I can, along with a 2600 flier about how bad the DMCA is
    • .


    • Join me in protesting for our freedoms! Remember, information (and especially movies like Good Will Hunting) want to be free!
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  3. Shocking! by Cutriss · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, EFF, and other major law school clinics have launched ChillingEffects.org to combat the chilling effect of Cease & Desist letters with ungrounded legal threats.

    Yeah, those lawsuits hurt me a lot too when they're not grounded - They build up lots of static.

    How about groundless?

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    1. Re:Shocking! by goldspider · · Score: 4, Funny

      Perhaps this site only deals with issues that will be decided by circuit courts.

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