{"id":3471,"date":"2004-02-10T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T04:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/02\/10\/arguments-heard-in-diebold-case\/"},"modified":"2004-02-10T00:05:32","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T04:05:32","slug":"arguments-heard-in-diebold-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/02\/10\/arguments-heard-in-diebold-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguments Heard in Diebold Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a597'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>EFF <A href=\"http:\/\/eff.org\/Legal\/ISP_liability\/OPG_v_Diebold\/20040209_eff_pr.php\">reports<\/A> &#8220;The Hon. Jeremy Fogel indicated he intends to issue a ruling within the next two months on whether Diebold will face the consequences of abusing copyright law.&#8221; Maybe it&#8217;s just wishful thinking that this could go in our favor.&nbsp; But even getting this far feels like a win.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s why:<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;The plaintiffs liken themselves to modern Galileos persecuted by authorities. I fear that a more apt analogy would be to modern day Don Quixotes feeling threatened by windmills which they perceive as giants. There is no real controversy here.&#8221;<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>That&#8217;s from the judge at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/DMCA\/Felten_v_RIAA\/20011128_hearing_transcript.html\">the final hearing for Felten v. SDMI.<\/A>&nbsp; He must have felt very clever. I doubt security researchers felt any safer.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF reports &#8220;The Hon. Jeremy Fogel indicated he intends to issue a ruling within the next two months on whether Diebold will face the consequences of abusing copyright law.&#8221; Maybe it&#8217;s just wishful thinking that this could go in our favor.&nbsp; But even getting this far feels like a win.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s why: &#8220;The plaintiffs liken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}