I agree! This law is wrong! Maybe we should put together a petition to send to our reps. I would sign and support that, but I am not much into the protest thing! Dusty > > I don't know about you folks, but I am completely disgusted by this > situation. The DMCA took its first victim, and the public is completely > ignorant to the travesty that is the DMCA. Completely unconstitutional, and > unfairly favoring the corporate interests that paid for its passing as law. > > Under the DMCA a corporation can merely hint that you are violating the law, > and ISP's are required to pull your plug without an investigation. Guilty > until proven innocent? > > In the case of the DeCSS vs 2600, the circumvention of the SDMI watermark > protection and Adobe's pitifully secured ROT13 encrypted EBook's, these > corporate interests can cite the DMCA to cover up their own poor engineering > with laws. In the process they can arrest or sue any legitimate academic > research that offends their business (Professor Felton and SDMI), arrest > foreigners only because they made software that is legal in his home country > in order to enable fair use of Adobe's EBook that is ILLEGAL in Russia. > > This is only the beginning of the DMCA born abuses of corporate power. We > must alert the public to this problem, and demand a repeal of this > unconstitutional law. > > I for one am writing letters to our representatives in Washington D.C. I'd > like to stage a protest too, but I doubt anyone would show up. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "joel" > To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 5:48 PM > Subject: [luau] Help the blind, go to jail > > > > FYI, Dmitry Sklyarov has just been indicted on five counts of > circumventing > > copyright control. I'm sending this to a lot of people I know: > > > > Hi, > > > > You know I normally don't send these things, but I think this one is > > extremely important, if we want to live in a free country. > > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to luau as: dusty@sandust.com > To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') So I asked my accountant, do I get an agriculture exemption for my server farm?