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HP Backs Off DMCA Threat

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-that-wasn't-such-a-hot-idea dept.

Bruce Perens wrote with this interesting reversal: "News.com reports HP has backed off of its DMCA threat." Which makes SNOsoft's official response thankfully beside the point now. Update: 08/02 05:37 GMT by T : Declan McCullagh points out this CNET story, which includes words from HP, Snosoft, and Bruce Perens. Writes Declan: "HP blames the snafu on... their lawyers!"

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  1. Re:Hollow Victory by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Informative
    Dear AC,

    I agree that this is hardly the last shot in the battle. Hardly. If anything, we kept a bad situation from getting a drop worse. But I don't know if "wussied out" is really a fair description. I modified my own DMCA paper to protect HP's Linux program. When Kent Ferson sent his letter a whole 4 days later, I lit fires all over HP and (along with a cast of good people within HP) convinced everyone, including Kent, that using DMCA this way was a bad idea.

    But I didn't get the law repealed this week. I'll keep working on that. It would be really nice if you would put in a lot of work on this, too. This is the sort of issue where every one of us has to help or we'll lose.

    Thanks

    Bruce

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    Bruce Perens.