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"sdg" == Sayamindu Dasgupta sayamindu@clai.net writes:
sdg> Hey, Looks like Apple has unleashed it's lawyers upon sdg> sarovar.org for hosting fairplay. sdg> http://sarovar.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=474
No, I don't agree with the project being taken down. Enough arm-twisting by corporates who want to protect their ``Intellectual Property'' by killing innovation and the individual hacker (not cracker!). If the project is taken down it will create a bad precedent in India, which will eventually lead to DMCA, PATRIOT and similar restrictions being placed on Indian developers without anyone having raised his/her voice against it.
Sarovar, CVR, etc, please fight this case. And to put my money where my mouth is, I'm putting in Rs. 1000 to help you get a lawyer. I'm also forwarding this message to more lists and requesting people to come up and help defray your legal costs.
Please set up some sort legal fund and fight!
Regards,
- -- Raju
sdg> I don't seem to understand what Apple really wants - on one sdg> hand it leaves open gaping holes in its DRM scheme[1] - and sdg> on the other hand, it goes after programmes designed to sdg> decode it's protected AAC file into MP3s. Seriously - you sdg> don't need Fairplay to convert the AAC files into MP3s/Oggs.
sdg> -sdg-
sdg> [1] sdg> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=104270&cid=8881865
- -- Raj Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves