[Free-sklyarov-uk] flyer

[Anton Chterenlikht]

Dear all,

I made some draft changes to this flyer:
http://www.tabinda.com/freedmitry/free_dmitry_flyer_20010729.doc

Basically I just removed the phrase about "our tax money", removed two
quotations and added another three. But.. it does not fit on the page :)

The quoted words can be found at:
Ross Anderson - http://www.authorsrights.org/crefo/crefo5.html
Alan Cox - http://lwn.net/daily/alan-quits-als.php3
Richard Kay - our site

I'm not sure it is good. Maybe some quotations sound a bit too
complicated for the London tourists.

I can do flyers (probably print one and put on a xerox, the quality is a
bit worse than printed but it very quick, when I was printing the first
ones, a week ago, it took me 10 min for 500 copies), but I need to be
sure that the text is ok.

If you want me to do this, can you please provide me with the final copy
of this flyer.

Is it ok to send attachments to the list?

anton

Following is a flyer:
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On July 16 FBI agents arrested security researcher Dmitry Sklyarov.
On July 23 Adobe Systems, which originally called for Dmitry's arrest,
recommended he be released from federal custody.
The Department of Justice has done nothing.


  The law under which Dmitry is charged, the notorious Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is again proving harmful to civil
liberties and software development.
  Dmitry, a Ph.D. candidate and father of two small children, wrote
software for his employer, ElcomSoft. ElcomSoft's program makes it
possible for legitimate users to make fair use of e-books, and could
make it possible for visually impaired users to use them with Braille
terminals and text-to-speech software. Dmitry is a Russian citizen whose
actions are perfectly legal in his home country. He has committed no
crime.
  This case is not about copyright infringement. Dmitry has not been
charged with making any illegal copies. His work simply allows the
legitimate purchaser of an e-book to translate it from one digital
format into another.
  Dmitry was arrested after presenting his findings at a conference in
Las Vegas.

"The U.S. government for the first time is prosecuting a programmer for
building a tool that may be used for many purposes, including those that
legitimate purchasers need in order to exercise their fair use rights."
-- Robin Gross, Electronic Frontier Foundation

"With the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is
not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. While
he was undoubtedly chosen for political reasons, as a Russian is a good
example for the US public the risk extends arbitrarily further. (=85)
Until the DMCA mess is resolved I would urge all non US citizens to
boycott conferences in the USA and all US conference bodies to hold
their conferences elsewhere."
-- Alan Cox, Linux Developing Team

"The imprisonment of Mr Sklyarov - and this use of the DMCA - represents
a threat to the freedom of expression of programmers and software
academics everywhere, should we express our views on security issues
affecting substandard products which the DMCA is apparently intended to
protect and then be foolish enough to visit the US."
-- Richard Kay, University of Central England, Birmingham

"There is a question whether it will be prudent to hold certain types of
security conferences in the U.S. in the future.
We can't really tolerate a situation where anyone who breaks a system
that embarrasses someone gets served with a writ."
-- Ross Anderson, Cambridge University.



http://freesklyarov.org/
http://www.xenoclast.org/freesklyarov/

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