That's actually two seperate arguments. First, why does what a judge in Boston has ruled matter to me? And more interestingly, how does it matter to someone in France? Second, how is posting cphack a violation of copyright when they are perfectly free to do so according to the GPL?
"What these guys were posting was not copyright-protected material," said Sarah Wunsch, an ACLU attorney in Boston. "We don't believe the judge has authority to issue a restraining order at all."
The ACLU has appealed the injunction against posting cphack.
Salon asks Can hyperlinks be outlawed?, relating the Ticketmaster case where "deep links" were found legal and the MPAA's attempt to make it illegal to link to sites containing the DeCSS program. I wanted to look at that issue myself but couldn't find a copy of the Ticketmaster ruling.
Of course, since nobody's used it, who really cares? I find it useful though not to have to bounce back and forth between Weblogs.com to use for general browsing. The fact that you lose your favorites is a problem though, and one I'll have to work on.
Update on the Weblogs.com sidebar I developed for Mozilla... it works in Linux, but there is some odd behavior, like it doesn't want to close correctly :-). I have to chalk it up to bugs in Mozilla, so just wait for them to go away.
A Slashdot exclusive on Censorship Under The Digital Union Jack? talking about a site shut down by the ISP before a real problem emerged. You should read the article.
Also, They Fight for Citizen's Privacy: "Privacy commissioners from every country but the United States convene on a panel to discuss their respective issues. Why not the United States? It doesn't have a commissioner."
This is the only practical answer. Reform can and should be made to the system itself, but the tech industry can't wait that many years. Setting up something like this is a Good Idea.