[free-sklyarov] Hacker Arrest Stirs Protest

Karl De Abrew karl.deabrew at binarything.com
Thu Jul 19 06:49:19 PDT 2001


The next Wired article is out -- definitely worth reading. Some excepts
below...

-Karl

Hacker Arrest Stirs Protest 
By Declan McCullagh 2:00 a.m. July 19, 2001 PDT  
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45342,00.html


"WASHINGTON -- When the FBI arrested a Russian programmer this week on
charges of criminal copyright violations, the government unwittingly
ignited a powder keg of outrage"

...

"This high-visibility prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act seems to have focused the kind of anger not seen since the days of
the 1996 Communications Decency Act or the Secret Service raid of Steve
Jackson Games -- two defining moments in the development of civil
liberties online."

...

"In San Francisco on Wednesday evening, campaigners met at the home of
one outraged activist to plan strategy. Some cypherpunks have created
BoycottAdobe.com, which blames Adobe for "abusing U.S. copyright law to
protect their cash-flow," and others are hunting for San Francisco-area
natives who can vouch for Sklyarov's character -- so he can be released
on bail. 

The danger for Adobe is that rather than dissipating, online anger
could instead focus on how the company likely lobbied the U.S.
government to take up its cause with regard to the ElcomSoft utility."





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