[free-sklyarov] The American Association of Publishers issues a press release

Sreeni R. Nair snair at utstar.com
Mon Jul 23 09:06:03 PDT 2001


I had emailed ACM last night to request them to distance themselves from 
AAP's stance. I haven't got a reply till now.

At 03:12 PM 7/22/2001 -0700, Derek Balling wrote:
>At 6:48 PM -0700 7/22/01, Doug Lay wrote:
>>I notice that the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE are also
>>listed as AAP members.
>
>Just sent to <acmhelp at acm.org>, their member services e-mail address:
>
>To: acmhelp at acm.org
>From: Derek Balling <dredd at megacity.org>
>Subject: ACM and the AAP
>
>I notice, with some horror, that the ACM is a member of the Association of 
>American Publishers, as noted at:
>     http://www.publishers.org/home/abouta/members.htm
>
>The AAP has come out in favor of Adobe's request to the FBI (and the FBI's 
>fulfillment of that request) to have a Russian programmer, Dmitry 
>Sklyarov,  arrested and imprisoned for writing and selling software while 
>in his native Russia. That's all it is. They're confusing the issue by 
>bringing up the DMCA, but it doesn't apply as no act was committed on US soil.
>     http://www.publishers.org/home/press/index.htm
>
>Obviously, this is distressing, and having wide-reaching effects. Alan Cox 
>has resigned from Usenix's Atlanta Linux Showcase committee, fearing what 
>broad-reaching net the US Government will sling across foreign programmers 
>for what they do in their native lands.
>
>It distresses me that a professional organization which I pay dues to 
>annually in turn pays dues to an organization that is proud to imprison 
>foreign nationals for made-up crimes.
>
>Please tell me that the ACM will be withdrawing its membership from the 
>AAP forthwith. Given that ACM's membership in the AAP has been noticed by 
>the growing movement protesting Sklyarov's imprisonment, I cannot be the 
>only one making this request of you, so I hope that the ACM will do the 
>right thing here.
>
>Thank you for your time,
>
>Derek Balling
>
>
>
>
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