{"id":413,"date":"2003-10-09T19:51:47","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2003\/10\/09\/the-freedom-to-tell-the-truth-cheers"},"modified":"2003-10-09T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2003-10-09T23:51:47","slug":"the-freedom-to-tell-the-truth-cheers-to-sunncomm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2003\/10\/09\/the-freedom-to-tell-the-truth-cheers-to-sunncomm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom To Tell The Truth: Cheers to SunnComm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a47'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Princeton student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/news\/breaking\/archives\/2003_10.php#000585\">was threatened with a lawsuit<\/a> because he discovered and published information about how to circumvent a music CD&#8217;s copy-protection scheme by pressing the &#8220;shift&#8221; key.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to rant about the sad direction we are taking with this kind of approach, about how we must protect researchers&#8217; freedom to tell the truth. I was going to complain about the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Instead, I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyprincetonian.com\/archives\/2003\/10\/10\/news\/8797.shtml\">preempted by the SunnComm CEO<\/a>, who withdrew the threat of a SunnComm lawsuit and said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be the guy that creates any kind of chilling effect on research.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cheers to SunnComm and specifically to Peter Jacobs, their CEO. Thank you for making the right, ethical decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Princeton student was threatened with a lawsuit because he discovered and published information about how to circumvent a music CD&#8217;s copy-protection scheme by pressing the &#8220;shift&#8221; key. I was going to rant about the sad direction we are taking with this kind of approach, about how we must protect researchers&#8217; freedom to tell the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}