[free-sklyarov] Wretched article at inside.com

[Richard M. Smith]

Yep what a perfectly awful article.  What bothers me so much about it is
that the author presents his assumptions as fact.  Some of the more wild
examples are:

   - "Most of the people coming to Sklyarov's defense fully 
     appreciate that some sort of anti-circumvention legislation 
     like the DMCA is crucial to maintaining meaningful copyright 
     protection in the digital world."

   - "Nor should Sklyarov's July 16 arrest have come as a surprise 
     to either ElcomSoft or Sklyarov, unless ElcomSoft was cruelly 
     keeping Sklyarov in the dark about Adobe's dissatisfaction with 
     ElcomSoft's business operations."

   - "The cat is then out of the bag and any attempt to bring a 
     copyright infringement charge against the individual who 
     originally uploaded it becomes laughably futile, even assuming 
     it were possible to identify that individual, which it usually
isn't."

What's interesting is that the software industry has had to deal the
challenges of copyright protection in the "digital world" now for 20
years.  The industry has thrived in spite of the difficult of preventing
the wholesale copying of software.  Just ask Bill Gates, the richest man
in the world.  The book publishing industry is now getting ready to face
these same challenges as they tried to create a marketplace for eBooks.
Wholesale copying of books seem to be their "bogey man in closet".  

Richard 

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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:23 PM
To: free-sklyarov at zork.net
Subject: [free-sklyarov] Wretched article at inside.com



Anyone interested a quick puke should click here:

http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=&pf_ID=E8EECFA3-CBD1-
447E-952C-CC16283D266C

If it wasn't clear before, this article should make it crystal-
clear:  

The publishing industry, and its allies in the music and film 
industries, cannot tolerate the free exchange of digital information 
across the Internet, and are willing to go to any lengths whatsoever 
to see that the free exchange of digital information is squelched.

Anyone for a march on the AAP offices during Usenix?  These people 
have basically declared war on programmers.

-Doug


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