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Sklyarov Bail Hearing Monday
mr_don't writes: "I just saw that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has just posted an Action Alert entitled "What YOU Can Do To Help Set Dmitry Sklyarov Free"
... Around 11am on August 6, 2001, at the San Jose Federal Building, Dmitry is set to have another bail hearing in front of Magistrate Judge Edward A. Infante. Protests are planned to coincide with the hearing. I hope as many people as possible can come to the demonstration... Help the EFF pack the courtroom during the hearing." A short article in the Mercury News mentions the hearing too, as well as the half-million dollar, five-year penalty that could be imposed.
> But c'mon - a protest? I would have expected something a little more creative from the /. commnunity.
/. commnunity.' is a bunch of hackers melted with a bunch of wankers.
You seem to have more ideas abnout what not to do than about what to do.
Where are your grand creative ideas ? Runnning around and sarcastically demotivating people ?
Of course protestr are useless, but when protesting, people meet each other. When they meet they talk. And when they talk, they may have creative ideas.
You also need to know that 'the
I sortof think that most of the ideas from here are better left unimplemented:
1133t> let's do a fr33 dmtiry outl00k virus !
h4x0> hehe. dude, u put a msgbox saying "do you agree with the DMCA ?"
ll33t> cool. luser clic yes, we eipe hard drive.
ll33t> eipe -> wipe. lol
f4gg0t> put other msgbox "next time, sayz NO to DMCA"
h4x0> hehehehe
soop3rc0p> f4gg0t u rulz
ll33t> lol
Is that what you want ?
Cheers,
--fred
Whine, whine, whine; of course the man is being used, if you aren't being used by somebody you must be pretty useless. Get a life people.
An even better idea: Burn them onto CDs and then sell them on-line (e.g. eBay) as "Free Dmitry CDs." After covering all your costs, donate the leftover money to the EFF.