[DMCA-Activists] Students Getting C&Ds from Diebold

[Seth Johnson]

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Subject: [IP] Students receiving cease-desists fromDiebold...
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:16:06 -0500
From: Dave Farber <address@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:24:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <address@hidden>
Subject: Students receiving cease-desists from Diebold...
To: Dave Farber <address@hidden>, Declan McCullagh <address@hidden>


Hi Dave, Declan,

We could really use your help publicizing this.

Myself, along with students from 20 other universities are starting to
receive cease and desist letters from Diebold Election Systems. A copy of
the cease-and-desist letter received by MIT is here:

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/temp/diebold_c-d.pdf

The letters are in response to our coordinated electronic civil disobedience
effort to keep a compressed file of internal Diebold memos alive and force
them to do a legal version of "whack a mole." We have other students with
the files lined up ready to take our place as sites are taken down.

For more on the disobedience effort, See:
http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html

We need help getting the word out and having other institutions/ individuals
post mirrors to the files.  The Berkeley copies will be available here
(below) until we are forced to take them down or can convince our University
to fight the cease-and-desist actions on fair use grounds.

http://sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/nqb/archives/lists.tgz
http://sims.berkeley.edu/~parkert/misc/lists.tgz

We are within the bounds of fair use as the memos are highly newsworthy and
seem to implicate illegal activity on behalf of Diebold Election Systems. A
more extensive legal case is available by reading Wendy Seltzer's response
to one of the cease-and-desist letters:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=912

If you are a student reading this and can host a mirror, send a link and
your institution's name to address@hidden .

Thanks for your time,
Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall                    http://pobox.com/~joehall/
Graduate Student             blog: http://pobox.com/~joehall/nqb/

"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal."
--Excerpt from a Diebold Election Systems internal memo.
http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html

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