On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:29:24 -0400, S Woodside wrote:
>
>On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 11:05  AM, Jeff King wrote:
>
>>In this case, the DMCA might work to one's advantage, since from
>>what I have been hearing, LinkSys and crew are in violation of the
>>GPL, and these types of copyright violations are what the DMCA was
>>crafted to protect.
>
>Huh??????

Simon:

Here is a link to the DMCA:

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf

One of the provisions of it, with regards to online content providers,
revolves around promptly removing copyrighted material from such sites. As I
understand it, some of the material in question is copyrighted under the
terms of the GPL, and one could demand that, lets say for example, firmware
updates be removed from said sites.

That is what I meant by turn the tables on corporate america and use the DMCA
against them. It might get their attention, as I understood it, that seemed
to be the problem.

Good luck

-Jeff



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