--- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:24:48 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@private> Reply-To: joehall@private To: Dave Farber <dave@private>, Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Subject: Students receiving cease-desists from Diebold... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310282106200.5946-100000@private> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 info@why-war.com . Thanks for your time, Joe ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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