[ Thanks to Paul
Eggert for this link. ]
Jack Valenti, President and Chief Executive of the Motion
Picture Assn. of America, writes:
“A case is currently before a federal court in New York that
has to be of interest to anyone who believes in the right to
protect valuable property….“
“In the trial, the defendants no doubt can count on support from
activist groups that have been seduced by the hackers’ strange
ideology, which equates copying and stealing software code with
free speech.”
“The industry’s filing of a claim against these Internet hackers
is the first major test of whether the congressional guard dog has
any teeth.”
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