[free-sklyarov] Ripple Effect

Monty R Manley mrmanley at home.com
Sun Jul 22 15:44:15 PDT 2001


On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 15:31:44 -0700
"Jon O ." <jono at microshaft.org> wrote:

Feel free to quote whatever you wish, but please quote accurately and in context.

Thanks,

Monty

> 
> Monty:
> 
> Can I quote this? 
> 
> Also, if you have any suggestions or input for this site:
> http://www.anti-dmca.org
> 
> Let me know...
> 
> 
> 
> On 22-Jul-2001, Monty R Manley wrote:
> > The ripple effect of this affair is getting bigger and bigger.  The AAP
> > comes out in favor of Adobe's actions against Dmitry, but it turns out
> > that the ACM is a member of the AAP.  It's hard to imagine that the
> > illustrious ACM would have anything but contempt for the DMCA (have they
> > come out publicly for/against the DMCA?).  Librarians, the natural allies
> > of free speech and fair use, are caught in the crossfire between
> > publishers and the readers.  Scientists are finding themselves muzzled
> > because their research might embarass or negatively impact a large
> > corporation.
> > 
> > Likewise with the G8 protests in Genoa -- much of their cause is the same
> > as this one: not letting corporations trample the rights of individual
> > people.
> > 
> > We seem to have had a confluence of events leading up to a critical mass. 
> > People are angry -- not just at what happened to Dmitry, but at many
> > things that have happned in the last few years.  Our rights are slowly
> > being siphoned away by corporations and their politicain lapdogs, and I'm
> > glad to see that many folks are simply not going to stand for it anymore. 
> > I just hope that when Dmitry is freed, things will not go back to
> > "business as usual".  We need to keep the pressure on.
> > 
> > Free Dmitry,
> > 
> > Monty Manley
> > 
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