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Break the law?Break the law?Posted Aug 13, 2004 23:09 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet) by bilateralrope Parent article: Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet) What? Is it now illegal to write code? I'm sure Dr Touretzky would appreciate this way of thinking: DeCSS has been held to be illegal since it was "designed to break the law". Yet nobody in their right minds can expect Jon Johanssen to pay for the millions of transgressions happening every day -- essentially, every time someone plays a DVD on a Linux computer. Touretzky and others have been brave enough to keep distribution sites up even on the face of legal threats. Sometimes groups of people use the law to limit others' rights; sometimes the law itself is unjust; but you should always have the right to speak (or code) what is on your mind.
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