Samba & DMCA

[Rafal Szczesniak]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Maksim Yakubenko wrote:

> As of February 19, 2002 
> open-source project at http://www.bnetd.org/
> was shut down by Blizzard Entertainment.
> 
> (bnetd - open source realization of BattleNet protocol)
> 
> Citation from http://www.bnetd.org/:
> "This is due to 17 USC Section 512(c)(1)(C) (AKA DMCA, 
> supposedly required to be passed by WIPO treaties). 
> Blizzard claims bnetd is in violation of 17 USC Section 
> 1201(b), though we do not agree with their interpretation."
> 
> This is terribly bad.
> 
> I'm asking: will the Samba project be next ?

I hope never will. Anyway, so far, even if it had happened it would not
have been possible to enforce outside US (e.g. in Europe with its current 
state of law).



cheers,
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