[free-sklyarov] List of Demands

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>From: "Michael C. Smith" <maxomai at aracnet.com>
>To: free-sklyarov at zork.net
>Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] List of Demands
>
>On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:05:15PM -0700, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> > The DMCA must be challenged in a court of law.  That's how our system
> > works.  If Dmitry is immediately freed, we lose the opportunity for the
> > challenge of the criminal portions of that law.
> >
> > Maybe you're just trusting Felten v. RIAA.
>
>We also have an opportunity here to pressure Congress to change the law.
>
>The key is to raise a big stink in the traditional media and to send
>lots and lots of letters to our legislators. This issue doesn't even
>touch the periphery of their conciousness. Legislators are some of
>the LEAST wired people on the planet and they need to be made aware
>by our screaming really loudly.
>
>Mike Smith

One of the unfortunate ironies here is that the DMCA was originally 
sponsored by our very own Attorney General, John Ashcroft, while in the 
Senate. I can remember watching his smiling, lying ass when he told his 
colleagues on the floor that the DMCA would "protect little Susie's artwork 
from being stolen on the Internet". So me and my fellow Missourians voted 
him out and replaced him with a dead man. Then our idiot-in-chief made him 
the top law enforcement officer of the country.

Given this background, I'm betting Ashcroft is looking forward to 
prosecuting the first case under his own law. (And getting TV time for 
being so proactive and technologically astute.)

Sorry, we tried to get rid of him.

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