From: owner-peacefire-press@iain.com
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 1:49 PM
To: peacefire-press@iain.com
U.S. District Judge Edward F. Harrington has ordered the
authors of the “Cyber Patrol codebreaker” program to remove their
site from the Internet and stop distributing information about how
to decode the list of blocked sites and find out what Cyber Patrol
is blocking. The AP story is at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000317/tc/internet_decency_hackers_4.html
Effective immediately, Peacefire is setting up a “mirror site
network” at:
http://www.peacefire.org/cpmirrors/
where we will maintain links to all known mirror sites of the
original essay. Even if Cyber Patrol is successful in shutting down
the original site in Sweden, they will not be able to shut down all
mirror sites around the world. We will not remove our links list
without a court order — and no U.S. court has ever ordered a
defendant to take down a *link* to an overseas site. (Even the
judge who ruled in the DeCSS DVD-playing program — who granted
almost all of the requests made by the film and music industry
lawyers — did not force defendants to stop linking to mirror
sites.)
We have the text of the complaint that Cyber Patrol filed in
court, ordering the Swedish ISP to remove the essay describing how
to decrypt Cyber Patrol’s list of blocked sites:
http://peacefire.org/censorware/Cyber_Patrol/cp-complaint.3-15-2000.txt
The text of the judge’s temporary injunction, ordering the
defendants to remove the essay from their Web site, is not online
yet.
-Bennett
bennett@peacefire.org
http://www.peacefire.org
(425) 649 9024