[free-sklyarov] Sklyarov=Napster according to Senator Boxer

[Paul Callahan]

My response to Senator Botster:

Dear Senator Boxer:

I appreciate your timely response. You may be unaware
that my letter did not concern Napster, but in fact
concerned Dmitry Sklyarov, a visiting scholar who
is being held in federal custody by our government.
His home is in Russia and he is currently being held
far from his family despite having committed
no crime in his own country, despite that he poses
no danger to our society, and despite the fact that
his
original accusers Adobe Software have disavowed any
support of his arrest.

As a computer scientist who has presented research
both here and abroad, I take a great interest in our
treatment of visiting computer researchers. I also
consider the anti-circumvention provision of DMCA to
be an unworkable law, and its criminal prosecution to
be a gross injustice.

If you have not done so already, please inform
yourself
on the implications of DMCA to the longstanding
notion of fair use in copyright law. Rep. Rick Boucher
(D-VA) has written on this topic:
http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/fairuse.htm

I eagerly await any relevant information you can
supply regarding your stance on DMCA and the Dmitry
Sklyarov case in particular.

Sincerely,
Paul Callahan


--- Paul Callahan <callahanpb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gotta wonder what kind of bot they have responding
> to
> Senator Boxer's email.  Here's the response to a
> letter
> I sent "regrading" Sklyarov and DMCA:
> 
> Dear Mr. Callahan:
> 
>  Thank you for your recent communication
> regrading Napster.  As you may already know, both
> the United States District Court and a United
> States Court of Appeals have ruled that Napster
> encourages and assists copyright infringement of
> copyrighted music.   This decision restates the
> important fact that in our country we value
> property rights, whether its music that a writer
> has created or the car that you drive.  Neither
> can legally be taken from you without
> compensation.
> 
>      I strongly support the advancement of
> technology and innovation on the Internet and
> desire that all consumers be able to get music in
> the electronic marketplace.  But such advances must
> also accompany respect for others' creations.
> Those who invest in the creation of music, whether
> it be an artist or record label, deserve to be paid
> for the use of their music.
> 
>      The technology Napster employs holds great
> promise.  It is my hope that such peer to peer
> technology will be available legitimately and that
> the idea that Napster has invented will become
> available to consumers in a legal manner very soon.
> 
>      Thank you for contacting me on this important
> issue.
> 
> --Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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