[Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Andrew Clark wrote:

> [Offer of help with website]
> Anyway, the offer's there if you're looking for someone to do the
> pages, and I should be able to find hosting for them also. Let me know
> if you want more details, sites or whatever.
>

This could well be useful - I could definitely do with a hand maintaining
the website, provided you promise to check your pages on older and non IE
browsers ;-)  Have you seen what tweakhtml.com looks like on Netscape 4.77
or less on Linux?

Don't yet need hosting space- the website and mailing list are run off a
co-located box that a group of us share.

>
> The company I work for is fairly small, and although I can't garuantee
> anything, I may be able to persuade my boss to allow our company to be
> referenced as a company which is against the EUCD / DMCA - as I say, I
> can't guarantee this, though.

Definitely worth a try, one of things I would like to discuss when we
hold our first planning meeting is how we encourage businesses to give us
or (perhaps more likely) the FIPR their public support.

>
> 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 customers to take away.

Great idea!  We should do this in as many internet cafes as possible,
since there's a fairly high probabilty that the denizens will be
interested in copyright issues.


> I would definately be interested in getting involved with protests. I
> was following the Sklyarov situation prior to the protest at the
> American Embassy, but I didn't realise that there were any UK protests
> until I saw the details on NewsNight. If I'd known in advance, I would
> have tried to come along, and now I do know I'd be very interested in
> joining any further protests.

Marvellous stuff.

>
> For what it's worth, if I hadn't seen NewsNight, I still wouldn't know
> about 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 than happy to help out if they were only aware of local
> (i.e. UK) groups. With 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 gather people who are already
> interested fairly easily.

Well said, that man.  Can you make it along tomorrow?

Apologies for the delay in replying to this one, marked down to come back
to and have ended up running round like a blue arse fly all week.

All the best,

Julian

-- 
Julian T. J. Midgley                    http://www.xenoclast.org
Cambridge, England.                       PGP Key ID: 0xBCC7863F
UK Free Dmitry Protest:              http://uk.freesklyarov.org/