[free-sklyarov] HAL attendees urged to resist global DMCA

[Jon O .]

WTO + WIPO = DMCA

Fight Back!

http://www.anti-dmca.org




On 10-Aug-2001, Kevin L. Poulsen wrote:
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/234
> 
> HAL attendees urged to resist global DMCA
> 
> Hackers and security researchers at the international conference watch the
> Sklyarov Case, and cancel U.S. travel plans.
> 
> by Ann Harrison
> August 10, 2001 2:52 PM PT
> 
> ENSCHEDE, Netherlands--Wearing a shirt emblazoned with a four-letter word,
> which he hoped would repel the U.S. media, Eric Corley kicked of the Hackers
> At Large (HAL) 2001 conference today here by urging attendees to fight a
> European version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
> 
> Corley, better known under the pen name Emmanuel Goldstein, was the first
> person prosecuted under the civil provisions of the DMCA when the Motion
> Picture Association of America (MPAA) sued him and his 2600 Magazine for
> posting the DeCSS program, which can be used to bypass the scrambling on DVD
> disks.
> 
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