Re: Important Notice Re: Dennis Erlich Defense Fund

In <199505222046.QAA06365@eff.org> mech@eff.org (Stanton McCandlish) writes:

>IMPORTANT NOTICE:
>Effective immediately, all contributions to the Dennis Erlich Defense Fund
>should be made payable to:
> MORRISON & FOERSTER
> 345 California Street
> San Francisco, California 94104-2675
> Telephone: (415) 677-7000
> Facsimile: (415) 677-7522
> Contact People: Carla Oakley and Katie Walsh
>Continue to indicate on your checks that the money is to be used for the
>Dennis Erlich Defense Fund.
<deletia>

>The Electronic Frontier Foundation remains committed to protecting free
>speech on the Internet, and we will continue to work with all parties to
>the _Religious_Technology_Center_(RTC)_v._Netcom_On-line_Communication_
>_Services_ lawsuit to reach a result that guarantees free speech. We are
>encouraged by recent advances by Helena Kobrin, legal counsel for RTC and
>Bridge Publications, Inc., (BPI) to mediate or otherwise settle this suit.
>EFF asks netizens to urge RTC and BPI to continue these discussions in an
>effort to find a nonlitigious way to resolve their concerns.
Kobrin is suing for peace? Considering the degree of personal agony they have inflicted on St. Dennis, the Hero of Glendale, and the on-going pressures on him concerning his child and ex-wife and his customers and income, that price might be surprisingly high-- But then, the alternative might be their utter loss of all their copyright and "trade secret" claims.

Considering that MoFo only filed their lengthy response quite recently, this sudden news that the Crock of $cn is encouraging the EFF via Helena K. to end the fiasco might be, might possibly be, some sign of incipient panic among the clambeds.

Oh, sing Hallelujah, there's signs and portents of Good News tonight.

-- tommyc@kaiwan.com Tom Collins "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened." --Terry Pratchett. "Babbitt was vaguely frightened." --Sinclair Lewis.