[free-sklyarov] courses of action

[mike castleman]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:36:24PM -0400, Kenneth Burger wrote:
> I dunno, but if this one gets passed, I'm leaving the US for another
> country.  Probably one of the Scandanavian countries.  I'll come
> back when the people are getting ready to start a civil war and join
> in that movement, but in the mean time I'm not going to live under
> that kind of tyranny.

What'll that accomplish? This is flawed reasoning; there are two
arguments I can make -- pick the one you feel is more convincing:

 - We should work to change the laws of the place where we are. Surely
   we can learn from other countries and what they do well, but in the
   end, running away from our problems is not the best way to solve
   them. In any event, not everyone can afford (monetarily or in other
   ways) to just pick emself up and move to another country.

 - No place on Earth is going to be much better in terms of
   DMCA/SSSCA. In Sweden, for example, a video store was prosecuted
   because it sold Region 1 DVDs. Not pirated or anything like that;
   merely meant for the "wrong" part of the world. With WIPO, WTO, and
   similar organizations, these problems are becoming global. Running
   to Scandinavia is no escape.

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