Author: JT Smith
the
New York Public Library, on the Island of Manhattan, there will be a
rally
to free Dmitry Sklyarov.
Note that this is not an LXNY event, but rather the seventh of a series
of
rallies, whose Lead Organizer and First Contact is
Leonid Gorkin
lgorkin@excite.com or lgorkin1@nyc.rr.com.
Do not bring any sticks to this rally. There is a New York City regulation forbidding sticks at gatherings.
The New York City police officers who told us of this regulation were
parfit gentle in their courtesy.
There have been and will be rallies in about twenty cities.
http://freesklyarov.org/calendar.
Much of the organizing of New York City Rallies to Free Dmitry take
place
on the fairuse mailing list of NYFairUse, which list may be joined at
http://www.nyfairuse.org.
To download a flyer go to:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/dmitry-links.
Upcoming Meeting:
Thursday 6 September 2001 there will be an organizational meeting to
help
free Dmitry Sklyarov and put down the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
of
1984^W1998 under which Dmitry was arrested. The meeting starts at 7:30
pm
on the second floor of the Killarney Rose at 82 Beaver Street, near
Wall
and Pearl Streets, on the Island of the Manahattoes. This meeting is
free
and open to the public. Artists, writers, students, parents, teachers,
librarians, publishers, booksellers, bankers, lawyers, economists,
cryptologists, Net folk, and all who have ever borrowed a book from the
public library are particularly invited.
Sunday 9 September 2001 the Campaign to Repeal the DMCA kicks off with
door to
door canvassing in Brooklyn. Come to the Thursday meeting if you want
to
help repeal the DMCA!
Personal from Jay Sulzberger, corresponding secretary of LXNY:
Last week Dmitry Sklyarov was indicted. If convicted on all counts he
faces 25 years in prison. He is accused of distributing a tool to
manipulate files in certain Adobe formats. All manipulation occurs
inside
a single computer. The tool checks as best it can that the file it
operates on is owned by the person running the tool. Under the DMCA
distribution of such a tool is a felony. If traditional copyright law
were
like the DMCA, then distribution of paper, pencils, ink, pens, and
cameras
would also be a felony. Today computers for home and business use
contain
no spy hardware nor any spy software, except for certain Trojans which
may
have slipped past the owner’s defenses. Under the DMCA and proposed
legislation all personal computers will be required to contain over one
megabyte of spy firmware which will monitor every single read and write
of
the hard disk. Under the proposed legislation the operating system
will
report back to Infotainment Central any “suspicious use” of the hard
disk.
Law enforcement agencies will easily get secret writs of computer
tapping
and be able to watch everything you do at home on what once was your
own
machine. Infotainment Central will be able to disable your computer
without permission from you.
Indictment:
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/technology/31HACK.html
http://cryptome.org/dmitry-indict.htm
http://cryptome.org/dmitry-burton.htm
Proposed legislation:
http://currents.net/news/01/08/28/news2.html
Our rallies and all the work of propaganda and education have been
important in alerting the world to the threat facing not only Dmitry,
but
everyone who uses computers and everyone who uses the Great Commons of
the
Net. Despite our alert, the government of the United States has chosen
to
prosecute Dmitry. Our response must be clear, forceful, and effective.
Why do we rally at the New York Public Library? Because the
Association of
American Publishers has declared that they plan to close down all free
public libraries. Their chosen tool is the Digital Millennium
Copyright
Act. As demonstrated by the indictment of Dmitry Sklyarov, the DMCA
does
indeed outlaw fair use of books that you, or the library, have bought
and
paid for:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36584-2001Feb7.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-6545588-0.html
http://www.visi.com/~tneu/pro-book.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/23/pirate/index.html
http://www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/index.html
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/comments
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/boucher_ashcroft_dmca.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July01/ginsparg.archive.ws.html
http://arXiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html
http://xxx.lanl.gov
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu
http://www.baen.com/library/home.htm
http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/opinion/30LESS.html
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/07/lessig.html
http://www.immaterial.net/page.php3?id=44
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue12/LU12-ebenmoglen.html
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu
http://cryptome.org
http://www.ala.org
We need marchers and leafleteers and copiers of leaflets and designers
of
leaflets and propagandizers and lobbyists and lawyers and coders and
water
carriers and publicists and diplomats. Come to the Rally and help!
Come
to the Rally and meet allies!
Dmitry Sklyarov today faces twenty-five years in prison for
distributing a
program which allows you to make fair use of books you have bought and
paid
for. Come to the Rally and help get Dmitry free! Free to go home and
free
to do his work.
