HP Makes Perens Bail Out On "Illegal" Demonstration
from the be-a-good-employee-now dept
Earlier this week, we mentioned that Bruce Perens was planning to purposely violate the DMCA tomorrow to draw some attention to how stupid the law was. The news of that bit of civil disobedience spread pretty widely, very quickly. It spread to some of his higher ups at his employer, HP, and they've told him not to do the demonstration because they don't want to deal with the legal consequences. Chilling effects? Seems like it.
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In this case Perens was going to do something which he admits is illegal. Now the DMCA is bogus and it *shouldn't* be illegal, but it is. Imagine if Perens said he was going to go up and smoke a joint on stage, and HP told him not to. Would this be considered a chilling effect and HP being wusses, or just being sensible as a corporation?
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...bunch of wusses.
Next time try a better hypothetical.
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