[free-sklyarov] Another one needs some perspective...

Ilya Volynets ilya at theIlya.com
Tue Jul 24 13:00:53 PDT 2001


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> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:20 PM -0700
> From: Diane Markcity <dgmetz at earthlink.net>
> To: "nicehair at boycottadobe.com" <nicehair at boycottadobe.com>
> Subject:
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> Unbelievable that anyone can even think let alone sponsor a site that
> promotes the idea it is ethical and legal behavior to hack or break
> copyright protected codes of an individual or company.
Please, before making statements like this, at least read the material listed and
referenced by that site. At least part of it.

That said, I will take some time to duplicate some of it here.

>  "HE BROKE THE LAW" 
That is one of most arguable parts. Dmitry Sklyarov din't do anyhing illegal
in US. At least general public wasn't yet presented with any evidence of it.
He didn't break any russian laws either. On the contrary, program he wrote
makes publishers selling eBooks in russia legal. According to Russian law
it is illegal to distribute any softeware or data, that cannot be duplicated by
end-user for backup purposes.

> folks and if he is intelligent enough to hack corp. secrets he is smart
> enough to know he was breaking the law of the land.
Dmitry Sklyarov didn't break into corporat secrets, unless of course you
considrer knowingly selling piece of shit to general public and claiming
it is a good product a corporate secret. Dimtry Sklyarov simply exposed
weaknesses of the product.

> This same individual
> would be outraged if someone broke into his home and stole his TV set yet
> he sees nothing wrong with stealing from a corporation and apparently you
> don't either.
Again, Dmitry Sklyarov didn't steal anything (unless you can prove otherwise)
from anyone. Quite opposite, everyone who knows him personally, describes
him as law-abiding, intelligent individual. Only thing he did, was to expose
drastic weaknesses in security system, provided by big corporation at very high
price to it's customers. From this perspective the corporation is the one who
has to be under law enforcemnt supervision, and I'm not going to be surprised
with class action suit from publishers against Adobe in the nearest future.

> Get some perspective you idiots and try to do something that promotes
> responsibility instead of defending lame brained cyber hacknicks.
Of course insulting is an easy way to pose your argument as strong one :)
I'm not going to comment any further on your last statement.

I just want to add, that the whole law that lead to this situation is flawed, and
I want to sudgest you to read more about it on the web.
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