[free-sklyarov] Re: GNU-Darwin: Blackout
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Tue Jul 16 11:46:43 PDT 2002
Is there an actual URL for the protest? This is included in the HTML text
included below, but is not a valid URL:
http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/dcaction00.html
-Declan
At 01:36 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, proclus at mac.com wrote:
>GNU-Darwin will blackout tomorrow, if the 7/17 fair-use
>representatives, leafleteers, or demonstrators are ill-treated. We will
>also commence to organize a world-wide boycott against the companies in
>the DRM workshop.
>
>Please accept my apologies, if you got more than one copy of this
>message.
>
>Regards,
>proclus
>http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
>
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>Geeks get political
>
>We are the stakeholders! This Wednesday <http://www.h2k2.net/>H2K2
>attendees, <http://www.nyfairuse.org/>fair-use activists and others will
>converge on Washington where the <http://www.ta.doc.gov/>Commerce
>department will host a so-called
><http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid>DRM workshop. The workshop
>discussion panel is stacked
><http://www.nyfairuse.org/newdmcanightmare.html>15:1 in favor of the
>copyright cronies, including representatives from the MPAA, RIAA, Vivendi,
>Disney, News Corp, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft, but geek activists will also
>be there to give our side of the story. Many thanks to Seth Johnson and
>others who helped to
><http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/dcaction00.html>get the trip organized.
>In light of the <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid>Palladium nightmare
>scheme, it is clear that
><http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3815768~root>the future of
>broadband is at stake, and it it time for
><http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,46557,00.html>fans to rebel against
>greedy content industries. If you can't make it to DC, then go to the
>Commerce website and <http://www.ta.doc.gov/comments/comments.htm>leave
>public comments. Also check out
><http://news.com.com/2010-1074-943785.html?tag>this story at
><http://www.cnet.com/>CNET, which discusses an initiative by
><http://www.publicknowledge.org/>Public Knowledge to create a geek action
>corp. Don't forget
><http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51927,00.html>GeekPac, and
>their <http://www.thelinuxshow.com/otc.htm>geek activism plan. Finally a
>question, Why isn't Apple on the DRM panel?
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