Re: Teen Offers Way to Crack Blocking Software

From: Emil Pellicer <epellicer[_at_]colby-monet.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:29:56 -0400 (EDT)

On 4/24/97 Richard Hopkins <rhopkins[_at_]activision.com> reported:
>
> Yesterday an article appeared in the PointCast version of Wired:
>
> " A Tennessee college student has posted a software program on the Web
> that can be used to decrypt a list of sites blocked by the prominent
> blocking software Cybersitter. The company that makes the program is
> furious, and an attorney versed in Net law says the student could face
> legal action"
>
> "He is violating every intellectual property law ever written," said
> Solid Oak president Brian Milburn. "

Every single one? Ever, since the days of Stationer's Hall? Wow, I'd like to know who Mr. Milburn's lawyers are; I too want to learn how to protect client's products like that.

Emil Pellicer
<epellicer[_at_]colby-monet.com> Received on Fri Apr 25 1997 - 21:34:43 GMT

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