Judge Harrington's order is at: http://www.politechbot.com/cyberpatrol/final-injunction.html ********* http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35244,00.html Mattel Can Go After Mirrors by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 12:55 p.m. Mar. 28, 2000 PST A federal judge in Boston has invited Mattel to start contempt of court proceedings to shut down mirror sites in a suit over its Cyberpatrol filtering software. U.S. District Judge Edward Harrington's order released Tuesday afternoon says anyone who is acting in "concert" with the authors of a program that reveals Cyberpatrol's secret blacklist must take down their Web sites or face the consequences. During a hearing on Monday, a Mattel attorney said that would apply to anyone who mirrors the "cphack" utility. "They should be afraid of being hauled into court on contempt proceedings," Irwin Schwartz said. In his three-page order, Harrington wrote that it was a good thing that parents could block the Web sites of "the purveyors of pornography and the merchants of death and violence." In addition to descrambling Cyberpatrol's blacklist, cphack reveals the password that parents have set -- and users can then bypass the ban on verboten Web sites and newsgroups. [...]
