Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1509-996582685-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10973 invoked by uid 510); 31 Jul 2001 11:33:50 -0000 Received: from n22.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.72) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2001 11:33:50 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1509-996582685-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by cj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 31 Jul 2001 12:31:25 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 31 Jul 2001 12:31:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 41763 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2001 12:31:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 Jul 2001 12:31:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2001 12:31:20 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id FAA11870 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:31:20 -0700 Message-Id: <200107311231.FAA11870@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] DMCA vs the 'hacking' community Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hackers plan to bite back as FBI detains Russian: Copyright crackdown provokes worldwide protests Stuart Millar, The Guardian, 7/30/2001 http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,528767,00.html Dmitry Sklyarov is an unlikely cause cilhbre, but the Russian computing student has found himself caught up in a worldwide wave of protests against the power of big business. The quiet, unassuming postgraduate student's name will be chanted and his image paraded during street protests planned for cities across the US and much of Europe this week. The reason? For two weeks, the 26-year-old Russian has been languishing in a Nevada jail after the FBI arrested him under controversial copyright laws while he was attending a hackers' convention in Las Vegas. With international condemnation of his treatment intensifying, the US authorities may rue the decision to make an example of Dmitry Sklyarov, who is also a part-time programmer for a software company in Moscow. Campaigners say his case reveals the increasingly unhealthy power that big business holds over the federal law makers. Mr Sklyarov was detained after Adobe, one of the world's biggest software companies, complained that he had created a program which circumvented the copyright protection on one of its products. Although he is a foreign national who has not breached any law in his own country, Mr Sklyarov faces being the first person to be prosecuted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The law, passed three years ago by congress in the face of massive opposition from freedom of information and free speech campaigners, makes it a criminal offence to create a technology that undermines copyright protection mechanisms on products ranging from software to CDs. If convicted, Mr Sklyarov, who has been denied bail, faces five years in prison and a $500,000 fine. ... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> The Nissan Sentra Everything but compact http://NissanDriven.com http://us.click.yahoo.com/3vsIKC/txlCAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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