[free-sklyarov] Free Dmitry Sklyarov

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Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer, who has been imprisoned after
presenting a scientific paper at the DEF CON computer security conference.
His talk covered the restriction mechanisms used to prevent people from
reading electronic books. He was formally charged with distributing software
that could be used to circumvent copy protection.

 Sklyarov was arrested under Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by the
FBI outside his hotel as he prepared to go to the airport.

 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act not only conflicts with people's
constitutional right to free speech.  it also prevents the publish of weak
point of some "security" tools, and thus encourages snake oil, and
deteriorates info security in the long term.

  It is ironic that a Russian national is being held without bail in the US
for what is essentially a thought crime. Through the passage of the DMCA we
have criminalized speech and scientific research about the structure of
computer programs as well as other simple acts such as reading of books and
other media.

 DMCA has conflicted the base ideal on what is country of founded on
“Freedom of Speech”. And now Dmitry Sklyarov, Russian is being held
without bail in the US for it. Not only did it violate Constitutional
Rights, it also violated Human Rights.

 Please join us on Saturday of this week 7-26-2001 and protest again it.

 The Protest is going to be hold at U.S. Attorney for the Northern District
of California office in San Jose; At 10:00am this Sat.

And the address is:

 280 South First St., Rm. 371, San Jose 95113.

 Contact Info:

roylo at sr2c.com

Http://sr2c.com/free.html



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