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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>
  • To: "proclus AT gnu-darwin.org" <proclus AT gnu-darwin.org>
  • Cc: Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Community_studios] playfair on x86, Apple uses DMCA
  • Date: 09 Apr 2004 20:49:06 -0700

Hi, Proclus: Thanks for the heads up. SONG STORM and Open Studios have
set an image/link:
www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/mt/Song_Storm/
www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
Tom

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 17:13, proclus AT gnu-darwin.org wrote:
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> For any who haven't heard, Apple has apparently served the playfair
> project with a DMCA takedown notice, which means that GNU-Darwin is
> going black with a prominent playfair link this weekend. Here are the
> story links.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/09/playfair_dmca_takedown/
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/09/1554203
>
> That last point should be up for discussion, because we general ignore
> the proprietary software side of Apple. Personally, I think that anyone
> who intentionally and knowingly uses any DRM-loaded tool such as iTunes
> deserves no support at all. On the other hand, we have been engaged
> with related issues for several years now, and like the DVD problem,
> this situation is begging for our involvement.
>
> GNU-Darwin is a SourceForge based project, and it is apparently
> SourceForge who executed Apple's takedown, so we won't be distributing
> playfair packages through our usual channels ;-}.
>
> Regards,
> proclus
> http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
>
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