Wired: Mattel Stays on the Offensive

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 28, 2000

“Upping the stakes in a battle over a utility that reveals
Cyberpatrol’s list of off-limits websites, Mattel threatened mirror
sites with contempt charges during a court hearing Monday
afternoon.”

“Mattel, which sells Cyberpatrol, said the toy giant had
acquired the copyright to “cphack” from the two cryptoanalysts who
published it on their website earlier this month
in a
settlement agreement signed on March 24.”

“Citing a March 16 Slashdot thread that said “it’s time to
mirror!”, Mattel attorney Irwin Schwartz advised against anyone
thinking of distributing cphack from now on.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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