[Fsf-friends] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

[Anand Babu]

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| >>>>> "sdg" == Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu@clai.net> writes:
| 
|     sdg> Hey, Looks like Apple has unleashed it's lawyers upon
|     sdg> sarovar.org for hosting fairplay.
|     sdg> http://sarovar.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=474
| 
| No, I don't agree with the project being taken down.  Enough
| arm-twisting by corporates who want to protect their ``Intellectual
| Property'' by killing innovation and the individual hacker (not
| cracker!).  If the project is taken down it will create a bad
| precedent in India, which will eventually lead to DMCA, PATRIOT and
| similar restrictions being placed on Indian developers without anyone
| having raised his/her voice against it.
| 
| Sarovar, CVR, etc, please fight this case.  And to put my money where
| my mouth is, I'm putting in Rs. 1000 to help you get a lawyer.  I'm
| also forwarding this message to more lists and requesting people to
| come up and help defray your legal costs.
| 
| Please set up some sort legal fund and fight!
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I am willing to contribute both code and money to this project.

I want to understand more about the legal issues. 
1) Hosting at savannah.gnu.org. What issues do we have? 
2) India hackers are not bound by DMCA or PATRIOT !!!
3) Hosting under FSF India?
4) What legal implications I will face, If I contribute to this
   project while I am in the US?
5) Decoding may be, but Coding is not a crime. It doesn't matter if I
   am in US or India.

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