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\section{My Group}
My group was structured as such:(with roles in order)\\
Myself playing the roles of Alex and the MIT TLO Representative\\
Mingxi Fan as School Superintendent and PKP Representative\\
Mike Gonsalves as PKP Representative and Alex\\
Shahram Tadayyon as the MIT TLO Representative and the School Superintendent.

\section{Round 1}
In the first debate, the PKP representative was very eager to recoup the monetary losses his company had taken.  He was very aggressive in trying to get me to agree to start paying PKP back out of my salary for the rest of my life, as well as forcing the school to pay 5% of it's budget for 20 years.  Although we said these were clearly unreasonable terms, he nonetheless wanted to make some money back from us.  I bargained him down to the deal mentioned below.  He admitted he didn't want to take us to court, but was insistent upon somehow making his money back.  

I managed to convince him to accept an agreement in which I worked together with the school to try and remove all copies from the net.  Towards this end, I would immediately remove the present copy from the ftp sites it was on and place notices in the spots where it was telling anyone using it to stop immediately.  To help convince people to stop using the illegal version, I planned on rewriting the critical sections of the code using the public domain version of RSA, under the concept that people are much more willing to use a replacement program rather than stop using the program altogether.  Furthermore, I would post to the k12.* newsgroups with the announcement, under the theory that any school using the program is also reading the newsgroups specific to Elementary through High Schools.

I could not get the PKP representative completely out of his position of making some money out of the problem, so I ended up paying a single user license, and the school a group license.  Unfortunately, both the school supervisor and the MIT TLO representative were very quiet during this meeting, and didn't contribute much to the discussion, except for direct defenses of their respective organizations.

I was pleased with this outcome, considering the mood the PKP representative came into the meeting with.  Although I ended up having to pay for a single user license, this is only \$40, a sum I can handle rather easily (although not completely happily).  It was depressing to see my school hit with a rather large sum, but the superintendent didn't disagree too strenuously, and maybe they can work out a payment deal.

\section{Round 2}
In the second debate, the PKP representative came out as a much less aggressive bargainer, aiming to get the current program off the net, and prevent further occurrences of the problem.  He asked Alex and the school to put a lot of effort into getting the program off the net, but didn't bring any financial threats against them.  As MIT TLO officer, I actually didn't do all to much, except to assure the PKP representative that we do in general notify students that they are using patented code, and that we will make sure that {\it all} students know this in the future.  This incident was rather easily resolved, as all parties came into the meeting looking for the same solution, namely that Alex work to take the program off the network.

Because the PKP representative came out being fairly agreeable, this meeting came down to us all agreeing, and discussing methods of removing the software from the net, and preventing this situation from reocurring.

I was pleased with the outcome of this second meeting, because everything went smoothly, and MIT got off without any hassles.  Actually, this would probably be true in all cases, as MIT is pretty blameless in the entire affair (although the recommendation to inform all students about copyright laws is a fair hint (and obviously being heeded :-)).

I think that covering copyright and patent law is very important, although I'm not certain that 6.001 is the right place to do so.  It seems to fit more cleanly in something like 6.033 perhaps, although by that time it may be too late (as in the problem set).  This assignment was interesting, although I don't feel I personally learned a whole bunch, but then again, this is a subject that I've read up on.

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