[free-sklyarov] Alan Cox reaction

[Declan McCullagh]

Ian, is that right? I always thought you headed north (besides the
fact that it was a great job) because of U.S. encryption regulations
that were a threat and that are not anymore. (Was the DMCA even in
existence when you took the ZKS job?)

-Declan



On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:11:03PM -0700, Len Sassaman wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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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