[sklyarov-chicago] from Adobe

[Nate Riffe]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Michael Cannon wrote:

> You folks really don't understand how this workded, do
> you?
> 
> Adobe ACTIVELY lobbied for the law. 

Us bashing Adobe will not get the law repealed.  Us bashing Adobe will not
get Dmitry out of jail.  Us bashing Adobe will not get resources
redirected back toward real crime.  The source of this whole problem is
the DMCA.  Without the DMCA, Sklyarov would be with his family.  Without
the DMCA, the FBI would have been free to investigate real crimes.

> They continue to
> lobby for its continuation.  They pressured the US
> Attorney to divert investigatory resources from
> investigation of things like the RedAlert worm, the
> SirCAM virus, terrorists and armed bank robbery to
> pursue this to the conclusion we are at now.  They had
> another avenue, considering they began this a month
> before Dmitry entered the country:  instead of the US
> Attorney, they could have opposed Dmitry's entry into
> the US by protesting to the State Department.  Dmitry
> would have had his visa cancelled and would never have
> been able to come here.
> 
> Do you see that the arrest and illegal detention of
> this man was their purpose all along?

Yes I do.  Do you see how Adobe would never have been able to do this
without the DMCA?

> 
> I'll say it again:  they (Adobe) could have opposed
> Dmitry's entry into the country.   He would still be
> at home with his family!  See?
> 
> BTW, do I need to start providing web links to this
> stuff, or maybe compose a seperate web page?
> 
> Mike
> --- Steve Stearns <sterno@bigbrother.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:
> > 
> > > Quoting Michael Cannon:
> > > > Tough.  They brought this on themselves, when
> > they
> > > > pressured Mueller.  Their stock price is
> > intimately
> > > > tied to .pdf and Acrobat.
> > > 
> > > I acknowledge that. But I think a protest that is
> > focusing on a small
> > > number of unified goals is better than a group
> > that shouts 5 different
> > > things that to the uninitiated may seem unrelated.
> > Also, boycotting
> > > Adobe right now does not help us meet our
> > immediate goals.
> > 
> > Agreed.  Adobe got the ball rolling but at least
> > they've had the good
> > sense to back off.  Let's give them some credit for
> > that (maybe not much),
> > and focus our attention on the real issue at hand, a
> > really bad law being
> > enforce in an even worse way.
> > 
> > ---Steve
> > 
> 
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Nate Riffe			Help Dmitry Sklyarov find freedom in the so-
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