[free-sklyarov] picketting Adobe?

[Klepht]

>>>>> "DB" == Derek Balling <dredd at megacity.org> writes:

    DB> DMCA violations are something the people "don't understand",
    DB> by and large. Around HERE, in our cloistered little high tech
    DB> environs, there may be a larger-than-normal understanding, but
    DB> the masses don't understand it all.

The point is very, very simple: FAIR USE. "Fair use" means that if you
buy something, you get to use it however you want. If you buy a
newspaper, you can use it to line your birdcage. If you buy a book,
you can give it to your Mom to read. If you buy a piece of software,
you can make a backup. If you buy an electronic book, you can change
the font so it doesn't hurt your eyes.

People understand "fair." People understand "computer files." People
understand "my computer, my files." People understand "a man is in
jail unfairly."

Down to the specifics:

1. Adobe Inc. wants to take away YOUR rights to use files you paid
   for, on YOUR computer, as you see fit. They don't trust you to be
   honest, so they use software to take away as many of your rights as
   they can.

2. A programmer from Russia named Dmitry Sklyarov figured out how to
   stop Adobe from doing this.

3. Because of a misguided law called the DMCA, someone who writes
   software that protects your rights as a consumer can go to jail.

4. When he was visiting the U.S. for a conference, Adobe asked the FBI
   to put him in jail, which they did.

5. And we think that's unfair.

6. So we want Dmitry Sklyarov out of jail immediately.

7. And we want the DMCA repealed.

Jeez, man, this is --waaaaay-- simpler than Mumia Abu Jamal.

~Klepht

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