[free-sklyarov] New stuff up on EFF

[Seth David Schoen]

David Haworth writes:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:02:27PM -0600, Will Janoschka wrote:
> >   Hi Keith,
> >   This is not a anti-DMCA list.  Although everyone here is against  the DMCA,
> >   Seth Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> has demanded that this list is to free
> >   Dmitry not to exploit him.  When Dmitry is home in Russia then we can rage
> >   at the DMCA.  Later we will bring rage to the congrescritters and the DoJ
> >   that have so insulted the people of the United States of America.
> 
> General DMCA issues are being discussed on the dmca_discuss mailing list.
> http://lists.anti-dmca.org/mailman/listinfo/dmca_discuss

I would certainly encourage people to join other related lists and to
try to post things where they are most on-topic.  There's a
dmca_discuss list and also a dvd-discuss list (for DeCSS/DMCA issues,
especially for legal strategy discussion in the New York DeCSS case),
and then cni-copyright and cyberia, and the Eldred v. Reno list for
people who are interested in copyright term extensions.  There are also
several lists related to the freedom of cryptographic research and
publication, as well as at least one list for discussions of first
amendment protection for computer software.

Soon there might be a list for free software and the law (not that
AEBPR is free software, but many people are concerned about DMCA
effects on free software, and have been forwarding related materials
here).  Oh, and there are several lists related to copyright policy,
free speech, and DMCA-like legislative proposals in other countries
around the world.

If the subscribers of free-sklyarov could help me by finding other
lists likely to be of interest to subscribers here, I would be glad to
try to publicize all of these.  Since we still have almost 1,000
members on our discussion and announcement list, it would be great to
help interested people make new connections.  Plus, I'd be thrilled
if DMCA critics would spread out a bit into the wider civil liberties
community. :-)

By the way, I know that at least one free-sklyarov subscriber is not
against the DMCA.  People are certainly welcome to subscribe to this
list even if they don't oppose the DMCA.  A significant proportion of
pro-Sklyarov sentiment comes from the idea that it was wrong to apply
a U.S. law to a Russian programmer, rather than the sense that the
DMCA itself is a bad policy.

-- 
Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Its really terrible when FBI arrested
Temp.  http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | hacker, who visited USA with peacefull
down:  http://www.loyalty.org/   (CAF) | mission -- to share his knowledge with
     http://www.freesklyarov.org/      | american nation.  (Ilya V. Vasilyev)