ACM vs. RIAA 136
stinkbomb writes "The venerable Association for Computing Machinery has posted a legal brief on it's site regarding Felten vs. RIAA. The ACM position is: 'ACM believes that the application of any law to limit the freedom to publish research on computer technology will impose a cost not only on ACM's members, but also on the academic community, the process of scientific discourse, and society in general.'"
Re:How much sway does the ACM have though? (Score:3, Insightful)
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN. All the EFF has is money. The ACM has people who can reasonably explain whey they, as a voter, think the congresscritter needs to do something. Believe it or not, as idealistic as it sounds, enough people writing letters can still overcome large amounts of money in deals like this.
RIAA promoting MP3's (Score:1, Insightful)
Felton would do nothing but help the RIAA better thier security by being a white hat. Like there aren't thousands more people out there who can hack security - and about 99.999% of those people wouldn't be nice enough to tell the RIAA about it like Felton.
Are you kidding? (Score:2, Insightful)
I am a proud member of UPE and ACM.
um...hemos? (Score:3, Insightful)
Last time I checked, the RIAA was in the business of copyright enforcement.
Perhaps
Sincerely,
Vergil
Re:I'm sorry (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I'm sorry (Score:3, Insightful)
Where the hell have you been for the last decade??
No one EVER pays attention to the smart people. If they did the public would be smart themselves, but they aren't and so the RIAA grows and grows.
Ain't life grand.
Re:I'm sorry (Score:2, Insightful)