[I'm seeing a *large* number of messages yesterday and today which apparently have sat on some spool for around 2 weeks. In some cases, responses to these messages got through rapidly, but the original did not.]

---------- David Honig[SMTP:honig@sprynet.com] writes: At 04:09 PM 8/30/00 -0400, Greg Newby wrote:

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I was forced to remove my copy of the DeCSS code this spring by UNC as a result of a complaint by the MPAA.

First, You have the right to contest any copyright infringement they allege to your ISP (UNC in this case). Second, linking isn't copyright infringement.

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or confuse them:

Post DeCSS under a different file name, possibly changing the .zip to avoid recognition by filesize. Include enough text on your page to help the search engines. (will the next MPAA target be search engines, which will be prohibited from indexing DeCSS?) [...]

Last weekend, someone spammed the DeCSS code to all or most of the the comp.* usenet newsgroups. Deja has already removed all of the original posts, but not messages which quote the original - for example, the post noting this as a spam event contains the entire source, and is still up. [It's possible that the posting had an x-no-archive header, but I doubt it] Peter