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Students, ISP Sue Diebold
Quixotic1 writes "The campaign against Diebold that began as electronic civil disobedience took an exciting turn today as the EFF announced that they were filing suit against Diebold for abuse of copyright claims. They will be representing Swarthmore College students and the ISP Online Policy Group, who hosted and linked to copies of controversial internal memos."
here are all the memos for your browsing pleasure:
http://tapdance.sourceforge.net/diebold/
hope this helps
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If you agree with the EFF's decision to stand up to Diebold, then I may suggest making a small donation to the EFF to show your support.
Even if Diebold wins, the documents that were linked to might well end up as part of the public record, and won't be censorable, then. When the documents surfaced, the genie was already out of the bottle. Diebold's efforts to stop the spread of the documents has only resulted in more people taking notice of what's going on. There's no telling how a judge will rule in this case. The U.S. judicial system is a mess and has next to no consistency. It's entirely possible that Diebold will win. But in the process, the truth is already out there. You can't censor the public record. They've made what was a little mess into a big mess.
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Not shaky at all, this is very similar to the petagon papers, except it is against a private company. However, since this involves voting rights, there is overwhelming public interest in the content given that this invloves election fraud. More on the pentagon papers.
And NPR just ran a story on it
9 09 01
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=14
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