[Fsf-friends] Re: PlayFair project

[Raj Mathur]

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>>>>> "Imran" == Imran William Smith <imran@imran.info> writes:

    Imran> Given significant funds, you could try hosting it in
    Imran> Sealand, an offshore oil platform that declared itself an
    Imran> independent country, runs high security web hosting and,
    Imran> according to their website,

There are two issues here -- one of hosting PlayFair and the other of
Sarovar having to cease and desist from hosting PlayFair.

I personally believe that the issue of hosting is not the crucial one.
More critical is the question, can Apple be permitted to invoke a
DMCA-like threat to suppress the publication of free (or any) software
in India?  Are we (the free software community) going to sit back and
watch as our rights are chiselled away?

You can run but you can't hide.

    Imran> [snip]

    Imran> Ultimately I believe this will happen to everything - money
    Imran> moves to 'offshore' financial havens, internet content
    Imran> moves to 'offshore' internet havens, cloning research will
    Imran> move to 'offshore' biotech havens...

Sounds rather William Gibson-ish.

Regards,

- -- Raju

    Imran> Will Smith Malaysia

    Imran> Anand Babu wrote:

    >> Hi RMS, ,----[ Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> ] | Whether
    >> PlayFair would be considered legal in the US is a hard |
    >> question, given the details of what it does.  I think it is
    >> safer to | host it outside the US, in countries where there is
    >> really no law like | the DMCA.
    >> | 
    >> | I am looking for help in the Brazilian government.
    >> | 
    >> | If people interested in hosting the program want to talk with
    >> the | PlayFair developers, can you serve as an intermediary?
    >> `----
    >> 
    >> PlayFair author has already made me (Anand Babu) as official
    >> project-maintainer and I am part of the development team. So I
    >> will be the contact-person for this project.
    >> 
    >> People from FSF-India are actively exploring possibilities to
    >> help PlayFair project, both in terms of hosting service and
    >> legal guidance.
    >> 
    >> Fighting DMCA is no easy task. We would like to get as much
    >> help as possible.

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Raj Mathur                raju@kandalaya.org      http://kandalaya.org/
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