Here's a prediction: This case will never come close to generating the same amount of publicity, by at least two orders of magnitude. Folks on the Net have a bad habit of overemphasizing how important these cases are. This is not important to the people in DC who count. It has never been mentioned in the WSJ, the Washington Post, the Washington Times. Even the SJMN -- the hometown paper! -- has been running largely wire copy in its news coverage. I did a quick L/N search and the only network/cable TV coverage seems to have been a brief mention on CNN. Compare that to the kind of publicity the other two cases received, and there's no contest. Face it: The DMCA was designed to punish precisely what Elcomsoft was doing. There's no comparison between that and WHL or RJ. -Declan On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:00:30PM -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
Declan McCullagh wrote:
But the Feds won't back down as readily as Adobe, I wager. They don't have to worry about what programmers think, they don't have to worry about what Wall Street thinks (at least DOJ doesn't), they don't have to worry about slipping revenue in a soft economy and users turning to non-Adobe tools. In short, they have a different incentive structure...
True, it may be different, but it is an incentive structure (or, more accurately, a disincentive structure). For example, I don't thing the Federal Baby Incinerators really want to create another Wen Ho Lee or Richard Jewel fiasco. They already have enough egg on their face.
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