Re: [Fwd: [PLUG] Dmitry Sklyarov Protest July 23rd]

From: Crispin Cowan (crispin@private)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 14:36:23 PDT

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    Zot O'Connor wrote:
    
    > Alan wrote:
    > >
    > > http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010719_eff_sklyarov_alert.html#portland
    
    The EFF has a meeting with Adobe to talk about this issue, and the protest has been put
    on hold  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/20/2045220&mode=thread
    
    Crispin
    
    
    >
    > >
    > > For those of you unfamiliar with the situation:
    > >
    > > Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian cryptographer that was presenting a paper on
    > > security problems with Abobe's e-book format. (Like use of ROT-13.)  He was
    > > arrested immediatly after the presentation and is now somewhere in Federal
    > > prison for violating the DMCA.
    > >
    > > This is pretty nasty.  Basically it means that anyone who exposes weaknesses
    > > in copy protection (no matter how bad) can be put in jail for five years and
    > > fined a bunch of money.
    > >
    > > Double-plus ungood.
    > >
    > > Portland Protest
    > > WHEN/WHERE
    > > Mon., July 23, 2001, 11am PT, at Terry Shrunck Plaza outside the Federal
    > > Building, downtown Portland.
    > >
    > > Rideshare/Carpool Board for rideshare/carpooling on the EFF link above.
    > >
    > > EVENT CONTACT
    > >
    > > Jeme A. Brelin
    > > jeme@private
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    > Zot O'Connor
    >
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    Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
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