[Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail

[Andrew Clark]

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Hi there. This is my first post.

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:06:21AM +0100, Martin Keegan wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:
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> > What's the most effective action we can take next?
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<snip>

>         someone needs to write this stuff up as webpages, press releases,
>                 flyers, etc

If we can get the information, I'm more than happy to put some web pages to=
gether and keep them updated - a large part of my job is web coding and pag=
e creation (as I imagine is the case for a number of people on this list). =
If anyone wants to see past work, I've worked on http://www.just-the-name.c=
o.uk/ and to a lesser extent http://www.pay-as-you-host.com/ most recently,=
 and I also have a personal project website at http://www.tweakhtml.com/.

Anyway, the offer's there if you're looking for someone to do the pages, an=
d I should be able to find hosting for them also. Let me know if you want m=
ore details, sites or whatever.

>         someone needs to discover the exact legal position of the EUCD as

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>         find academics, business leaders
>         communicate with general public

The company I work for is fairly small, and although I can't garuantee anyt=
hing, I may be able to persuade my boss to allow our company to be referenc=
ed as a company which is against the EUCD / DMCA - as I say, I can't guaran=
tee this, though.

Alternatively/in addition to this, part of our organisation is an Internet =
cafe, and if we can get some fliers made and I can get hold of some, I don'=
t see any reason why I wouldn't be able to put some in the cafe for custome=
rs to take away.

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> Campaigning:
> 	need to come up with an argument to get more people onto the
>                 streets. 35 ain't bad, though, but no-one's going to
> 		protest without a good reason... how many more would
> 		be interested in joining in future similar actions?

I would definately be interested in getting involved with protests. I was f=
ollowing the Sklyarov situation prior to the protest at the American Embass=
y, but I didn't realise that there were any UK protests until I saw the det=
ails on NewsNight. If I'd known in advance, I would have tried to come alon=
g, and now I do know I'd be very interested in joining any further protests.

For what it's worth, if I hadn't seen NewsNight, I still wouldn't know abou=
t the UK action even now, and I think there may still be a large number of =
people who are already concerned about these issues and who would be more t=
han happy to help out if they were only aware of local (i.e. UK) groups. Wi=
th that in mind, I would say that the most important thing is to let people=
 know that there is action being taken in the UK, and we'll hopefully gathe=
r people who are already interested fairly easily.

Andy Clark.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... Oh, no - it's just an eyelash.
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