[free-sklyarov] Re: Continuing the fight

[Tom]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:35:43PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
> In this case, though, the fight is for all countries.  The US is
> trying hard to push the DMCA onto the whole rest of the world.
> Russians are safe for the moment, but they can't assume they will
> remain safe.  Their freedom is on the line too, in the long term.

"for the moment" is much more short-term than is apparent. they don't
even need a local DMCA. russia is a member of the hague convention:

http://www.hcch.net/e/members/members.html


(as you are surely aware, conf. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/hague.html
also my own article, http://web.lemuria.org/decss/hague.html for more info)


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