[Free-sklyarov-uk] Protests

[Timothy Baldwin]

On Monday 30 July 2001 10:27 pm, C. Scott Ananian 
cananian at lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Richard Kay wrote:
> > I think the best way to get the possibility of decent numbers on
> > this protest by Saturday is to broaden the issue so that those involved
> > in anti WTO activities generally are willing to adopt
> > Free-Sklyarov and anti-DMCA as a cause directly connected with theirs,
> > rather than this being an issue understood only by a very narrow and
> > specialised group of hacktivists. I think some research into UK based
> > anti-WTO lists and education there about the WTO extension of
> > corporate intellectual property rights might enable a fairly quick
> > escalation of support.

I am confident they will,  even if WTO isn't involved. It seems the WTO, IMF 
or WB or involved in most bad things. However 3 days is not much time to 
build a demostration!

Well I found out about this list from gnu.misc.disscus via freesklyarov.org.

> [I'm out-of-country, just monitoring this list for freesklyarov.org, but
> couldn't resist...]
>
> There *is* a link here.  The U.S. DMCA was passed *explicitly* to
> implement provisions of the WIPO treaty; the WTO and WIPO have a
> "cooperative agreement".  Many other countries are going to be
> "encouraged" to implement similar laws "to comply with the WIPO" --- in
> all likelihood they will not realize the pernicious effects of the
> proposed anti-circumvention language until after it is passed.
>
> I can rant more on the WTO-DMCA link, if anyone's curious.

Please do so.

(rather tired at present)
-- 
Timothy Baldwin
Member of WYLUG, WACG, SWP, SA and GR
2nd year Computer Science, University of Leeds