[free-sklyarov] I am sick and tired!

[Huy Vam]

All this intellectual bullshit (like the messages below) just shows what kind of helpless impotents you all are. 
While our comrade Dmitry is in jail, all you can do is - demonstrations, legal actions,  "write letters to Charlie Rangel, or  Chuck Schumer"....
What a shame!

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf at sethf.com>
To: free-sklyarov at zork.net
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:57:33 -0400
Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Protest strategy & goals

> 
> >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:37:08PM -0700, Bob La Quey wrote:
> >> Wrong. Adobe and the big corporations whose greed got the DMCA passed by 99-0
> >> are the root cause of the problem. The DMCA is an important symptom but please
> >> let us not confuse cause and effect here. Adobe must suffer a massive PR hit
> 
> > Declan McCullagh wrote:
> > Could not another competing "problem" be the fact that congresscritters
> > are such knaves that not one voted against the DMCA?
> > 
> > Oh, no. I suppose it would be too much to hold them to such a high standard.
> > 
> > -Declan
> 
> 	Myself, I think the fundamental question is
> "What Is Property?". Having large corporations being able to
> redefine property to their own advantage strikes me as the
> basic problem (as has been articulated elsewhere). Complaining
> that Congress has a moral responsibility to define property
> in some conjectured Libertarian-type fashion, and then endlessly
> repeating some variant of government-bad when they do not - well, 
> it seems to me that's unproductive in the extreme. Maybe it 
> fills column space. But in terms of analysis, in terms of having
> any utility whatsoever besides preaching (maybe not even to the
> choir), I just don't see it.
> 
> 	Here's the key difference; When someone looks at the motives
> of the corporations, they understand *WHY* the law was passed,
> and that can lead to some possible insight as to how to change it.
> In contrast, when someone merely proclaims their scripture as
> to what the government SHOULD do, it's the net equivalent of
> bible-banging. Both the courts and Congress are noticeably
> unreceptive to it, and it leads to nothing besides more
> bible-banging as they will remain unreceptive to it.
> 
> -- 
> Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf at sethf.com  http://sethf.com
> http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html
> 
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