On Thursday 06 November 2003 03:31 pm, Geoff Thorpe wrote:
War crime tribunals, environmental protection treaties, privacy legislation, ... the ability to let chilling effects meet little or no significant organised obstacle has become the trademark of a certain breed of "freedom-loving" people. Bruce Schneier once said that the "war on drugs" was the root password to the US constitution. I think they changed the password recently to use "terrorism" instead of "drugs", but it's still much the same dance - ridiculous legislation is ushered in in the name of "protecting rights" when in fact it is invariably used to achieve quite the opposite. The issue is not whether you exercise a personal disobedience to it, because Wine itself certainly can't, but whether something can be done to aid efforts to overturn these laws. In the mean time, (and as long as people in the US are involved in Wine,) we're stuck with them.
Here here!
It is really unfortunate that wine is another victim of the DMCA, but I'd rather Alexandre played it safe, lest we be made an "example." If some rebellious individuals want to contribute these sorts of patches, as sort of an act of civil disobedience, I suggest they post them to /freenet/. Once the DMCA is eliminated (one can hope...), then A can reconsider.