[free-sklyarov] Alan Cox reaction

Len Sassaman rabbi at quickie.net
Sun Jul 22 13:11:03 PDT 2001


Well, ian Goldberg has repeatedly stated that his reason for not remaining
in the US was the passage of the DMCA. So, there's another...

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Tom wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:44:56AM -0400, Xcott Craver wrote:
> > > alan's comments to usenix, however, made me wonder. I doubt that things
> > > like this are very effective, but they certainly FEEL right.
> >
> > 	The problem is that other countries are next, with similar
> > 	copyright laws.  You can't just flee the US and be safe.
>
> I am already fighting the euro-DMCA locally, thank you.
>
> > 	One other problem is that a "boycott" has to be noticeable,
> > 	if only from a PR standpoint.  Americans have the funny
> > 	tendency to be completely out of touch with the rest of the
> > 	world; Canada could declare war on us and we wouldn't even
> > 	notice.
>
> "brain-drain" is an incredible PR opportunity. someone has already
> turned down an adobe job offer. if we had someone else who refuses to
> move to the states now as a result of this, and a few others who say
> they had been contemplating it, but now they've changed their minds -
> some journalist will make a story of it. ("high-tech minds abandoning
> the USA after DMCA prosecution")
>
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