[Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Kieran Barry wrote:

> Hey, how about _talking_ to people next time. The demo on Friday was
> quite funny, since we evolved from typical geeks (silent, sheepish) into
> campaigning geeks (sheepish, pretty quiet) by the time I had to go at 2.

I managed to talk to 4 people in quite some detail and explained not just
why Dmitry's arrest and imprisonment were unjuest but why they should care
about the DMCA and the EUCD and how it will affect them.

I saw a couple of others talking to members of the public.

> And we need a lot more people to talk to. How about outside HMV or
> Virgin, complaining about the evils of the DMCA.

That's a good idea. We need to start bringing the issue of the dangers of
hte DMCA and EUCD to the attention of the CD and DVD buying public.

> Also, check out the second section in particular of the following story
> on Salon:
> http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.html

This is not really a new story though. It was pointed out to me earlier
that we need to be careful not to get drawn into a general "we hate
publishers and distributors" shouting match as the issues we're trying to
address are a bit more general however I do believe that we should make
some play of the fact that the current way copyright is enforced fails in
the original intent of copyright - to protect first authors.

Jason