[Free-sklyarov-uk] Placards, flyers, legal specifics...

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Martin Ling wrote:

> I reiterate:
>
> "IF YOU CAN READ THIS, GO TO JAIL", written in mirror writing - the more
> I consider it, the more it seems ideally effective. I suspect it will
> immediately attract people's attention and cause them to inquire about
> the protest. It also helps us raise the point of how *utterly* trivial
> the 'encryption' involved was, and hence the dubious state of the DMCA
> in relation to legitimate security work.

Agreed - seems good to me.

> Also, to all: I strongly recommend Bruce Schneier's piece on the matter:
> http://cryptome.org/dmitry-bruce.htm - in particular, the note that
> provisions made in the DMCA itself to allow for security/encryption
> testing and research [as in Sklyarov's case], as well as for reverse
> engineering for interoperability purposes [as in the DeCSS case] are
> present and *IGNORED*.

Yes - an excellent article - I've written to Bruce Schneier to ask for his
permission to use it on some flyers tomorrow.

>
> Oh, and for purposes of numbers: I'm coming.

Splendid.  I think we should have about 30 or so, based on people who've
said they will be there on and off the list, which is quite respectable.
With any luck there'll be a few more who'll decide to come between now and
then.

It seems likely that BBC Newsnight will be covering the protests tomorrow,
and there have been sounds of interest from other news agencies.

Julian

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Julian T. J. Midgley                    http://www.xenoclast.org
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