[free-sklyarov] Re: So Sad

[Pablos Kadrevis]

We need another volunteer to write back to this guy:

--On Monday, July 23, 2001 9:23 AM -0500 Marc Bech <thebechs at austin.rr.com> 
wrote:

> You guys should be ashamed of yourself. You are nothing but hypocrites
> and thugs yourselves, and no better people than Dimitry himself. But
> then again, you probably revel in that, and have nothing better to do
> with your creative talents.
>
> Dimitry is not just trying to circumvent a security loophole in the
> eReader, his is trying to allow, for his own profit, the illegal copying
> of eBooks. Passing around a book to a friend after one has read it is
> one thing, because when your friend has it, you no longer do. Passing
> around copies of a book, on-line or not, is illegal, because now there
> are multiple copies of it. You are not just hitting the pocketbooks of
> Adobe, but you are stealing from the authors and they're publishers. Do
> you go out and purchase photocopies of hardcopy books too?
>
> It would be one thing to POINT out a flaw in the eReader to Adobe.
> Dimitry went way beyond this to allow the illegal copying of software.
> So, do you illegal copy any software that is purchased too? This is what
> you are condoning.
>
> Dimitry is not pointing out a flaw for the sense of saving the planet's
> computers from security hackers such that needs to be done with
> Microsoft's operating system and Internet Exploder. Creating a loophole
> in the eReader again ONLY allows the illegal copying of software,
> nothing less.
>
> Touching picture of his family you put on your site too. Maybe Dimitry
> should've considered his family and children more before he carried out
> such a careless act of  on-line terrorism. If he is so smart, maybe he
> should've applied for a job at Adobe and done something positive. Too
> late for that.
>
> YOU and Dimitry are the thugs.
>
> I boycottt everything YOU stand for.
>
> And yes, you are being hypocritical for calling for an Adobe boycott on
> a website that was created with Adobe software. Pathetic actually.
>
> Marc
>


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