UK Protest Press Coverage

Online

Date News Agency Article
28 July 2001 Guardian Unlimited Hackers plan to bite back as FBI detains Russian
29 July 2001 Guardian Unlimited Adobe has net martyr e-booked by the Feds
- Nature Article available only to subscribers
31 July 2001 The Register Adobe DMCA protests spread to UK
31 July 2001 ZDNet UK 'Free Dmitri[sic]' protests gathers[sic] little London support
1 August 2001 Macworld.co.uk UK demo for caged eBook hacker
1 August 2001 SiliconValley.com (from Reuters) Hacker's Supporters ask Adobe to aid in defense
1 August 2001 eXcite (from Reuters) Russian Hacker Supporters Ask Adobe to Help Defense
1 August 2001 Yahoo! News (from Reuters) Russian Hacker Supporters Ask Adobe to Help Defense
1 August 2001 c|net News.com (from Reuters) Supporters of jailed Russian turn to Adobe
1 August 2001 silicon.com 'Free Dmitri' campaign takes case of hacker to US embassy
1 August 2001 silicon.com Fans protest over hacker in the slammer
2 August 2001 ZDNet (from Reuters) Russian hacker supporters call on Adobe
3 August 2001 NTK What do you mean, headline? This is NTK
3 August 2001 ZDNet UK London protesters slam US copyright laws
3 August 2001 silicon.com Techies sing to free jailbird hacker
3 August 2001 BBC Newsnight Is it right to imprison the inventor of a computer programme which can be used to break copyright protection codes (Real Video)
6 August 2001 The Register Free Sklyarov Now!
7 August 2001 silicon.com Defcon hacker free as a bird
7 August 2001 The Register Skylarov[sic] freed on Bail
13 August 2001 The Sunday Times When Your Job Becomes a Crime

Silicon.com

It appears that it's next to impossible to link to Silicon, as they do some hideous session caching stuff in the URL, and always dump you in on the front page. To find the articles, pull up their search page, and search for 'Dmitry Sklyarov'. If anyone's worked out a trick for linking to them, please let me know. And indeed, it turns out that there is such a trick - the links above now work properly

In Print

4 August 2001 The Economist "But Dmitry did no wrong"
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