> The MAA has ZERO authority outside the USA iin this
> matter - in fact, by sending a "cease and desist" order
> to an Australian site, for example, they are breaking
> the law themselves (from our legal department !!).
Great now guess who's gonna disappear in the middle of the night.
Jason
>>The MAA has ZERO authority outside the USA iin this
>>matter - in fact, by sending a "cease and desist" order
>>to an Australian site, for example, they are breaking
>>the law themselves (from our legal department !!).
Thanks guys,
Its stuff like this that I was hoping to hear :)
Cheers,
A
> >>In the last 10 days of August, the Motion Picture
> Association of America
The MAA has ZERO authority outside the USA iin this
matter - in fact, by sending a "cease and desist" order
to an Australian site, for example, they are breaking
the law themselves (from our legal department !!).
>>the DMCA (Digital Millenim Copyright Act) has on someone outside Australia.
This line should read:
"the DMCA (Digital Millenim Copyright Act) has on someone outside America."
Stupid microslob email checker ...
yep, two postings and it still can't get "Millenium" right :)
It's t
> I was wondering what the MPAA could do to someone outside the USA who posted
> DeCSS on a webserver, again outside the USA, using a content provider outside
> the USA. Do they really have any juristiction to "cease and desist" these sites?
> They are the MPA-America, and I certainly do not live
>>the DMCA (Digital Millenim Copyright Act) has on someone outside Australia.
This line should read:
"the DMCA (Digital Millenim Copyright Act) has on someone outside America."
Stupid microslob email checker ...
Aaron Binns
System Engineer
Tower Technology Pty Ltd
(02) 94242786
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Hi Sluggers,
I just got this in the linuxworld news email:
>>In the last 10 days of August, the Motion Picture Association of America Inc.
>>(MPAA) began sending cease-and-desist orders to people who post or link to
>>the De-Content Scrambling System (DeCSS) program from their Web sites.
>>Rea
