[FS-UK-announce] Sony censor www.aibopet.com with DMCA threat

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

If anyone is in any doubt whatsoever that the DMCA can be used, quite
gratuitously, to prevent the creation of interoperable products, and to
extend monopolies well outside the sphere of copy-protection of digital
media, Sony puts them right:

>From Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/yro/01/10/28/005233.shtml


Therlin writes: "Victor Matsuda, Vice President of Sony's Entertain Robot
America (makers of AIBO), sent a letter to Aibopet.com citing the Digital
Mellennium Copyright Act. You can read the letter here . Aibopet is the
website of an AIBO owner who enjoys researching AIBO. He also provides
free software programs to improve and add features to the robots." I bet
Sony won't increase their Aibo sales this way -- don't they like fanatical
customers?

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Julian T. J. Midgley                      http://www.xenoclast.org/
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