“The Open Source set finally got a chance to sock it to the
man today, but it happened to be the wrong man.“
“To bring some sense to the bitter dispute between DVD hackers
and the motion picture industry, LinuxWorld organizers wanted to
host an open forum between the defenders of the DVD decryption
program DeCSS and the MPAA Friday morning.”
“As it turned out, no one from the film industry consortium was
present. Organizers had hoped a lawyer from Proskauer, Rose — the
firm retained by the MPAA — would appear. They had to settle for
Mark Traphagen, a Washington-based lawyer who worked extensively
for the software industry during the drafting of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act.”