Thankfully it's not as bad as the news stories make out - CW sued Cobra and Bitcoin.org with a copyright claim. Because Cobra didn't want to doc himself, the court awarded judgement to CW. The white paper is not illegal in the UK, it just can't be hosted on Bitcoin.org
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It is actually quite bad. Anyone in the world can be sued from the UK, lose by default and have to pay up sets a really bad precedent.
This is bad for all open source developers.
For shame .
