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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.
Yes he could do this. In fact there is a Russian consular office in San Francisco, does anybody know if a consular office is considered the soil of the country it is an office of? I know an embassy is, but the only Russian embassy in the USA is is Washington, D.C.
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I don't know Dmitry so I have no idea if he would flee or if he would want to "fight for his innocence". If he fled the jurisdiction, it would be nigh unto admitting guilt.
The problem for the Russian Government if they help him escape is that they want to be our friends now (at least in the monetary sense) so they can't just go flying all their criminals out of the country. (Don't flame me for calling him a criminal, I don't agree with the DMCA, but it is currently and law and if he broke it, he's a criminal.)
Diplomatically, this kind of thing might not go over really well, it certainly wouldn't if he was a big scary criminal. With the current "low profile" nature of this case (at least in the mainstream media), I don't know if anybody would really give a rat's ass in this case.
Hey here's a thought...Maybe this whole thing is the USA's revenge for that college student accused of drug possession and jailed for 6 months in Moscow? The guy just got released today I think.
I'll get really suspicious if Dmitry serves 6 months of a 1 year sentence and is then released.
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Where are the slash-groupies? I distinctly remember being promised slash-groupies!
He could just walk into the next Russian embassy. It's basically Russian territory, they can't arrest him there and the embassy people would be able to fly him out to Russia without a passport and could even give him a new passport. So there, definitely, unfortunately, is a flight risk.
"It may be your sole purpose in life to serve as a warning to others."
Tell the public this:
This man is in jail for fighting for the principle that what they buy is theirs.
Second, it should be made very clear that the original complainant, Adobe, has stated that they don't feel he should be charged.
Well boo fucking hoo. If Adobe didn't think Dmitry should have been charged they should have kept thier fucking mouth shut. Instead Adobe sites the dmca and sets the FBI on him for something not illegal in his country. Then Adobe get bad press and walks away leaving the FBI to do its job. Now Adobe thinks it can set on the side line and route for the good guys.
Fuck that. Adobe started this and they should be held accountable. Until the charges are dropped and Dmitry goes free I've got a good chunk of Adobe products zipped up and sitting on gnutella.
And I'm going to do this to any company that pull dmca shit. I hope a lot more people join me. If we can send a message to these companies maybe they will think twice about doing shit like this
It is said that if you like law or sausage don't watch either one being made.
The following will work best for those of us that are citizens of the US and are registered to vote.
A technique that works to find out if your lawmakers are listening to you is to write them a letter (snail mail) or to e-mail them.
The US House of Representatives has a page where you can send your memeber an e-mail and even help you find out who your representative is. The URL is:
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
For the Senate go to:
http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm
The Senate does not have as much information about writting your senator as the House pages do but at least it is a way to contact them.
To assist them in replying to you always include your e-mail address, home address, and if you feel like it a phone number. If you know what precinct, parish, or whatever the number of your voting district is in your state/county/parish or whatever include that as well. Be brief but thorough enough to get your thought across. No more than a page and shorter if possible.
They do like to hear from you and I have yet to have my representative or senators abuse me giving them my information. Using the system when possible at least gives it a chance to fail and who knows, it might actually help.
"I want to know God's thoughts...The rest are details." Albert Einstein
From *this* page http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010707_ complaint.html in the last paragraph, the reason why *he* was picked up is because he is listed as the copyright holder of the software.
If you don't know what you are talking about, think before you start to type, and do a very simple look around the web before you open your mouth and start spitting out FUD, which is just as bad.
Sure. As a visitor of the US, you would be granted the same rights as an American. This is why all this DMCA BS is purely BS. Because this guy only talked about the software in Vegas, and preventing him from doing so is a violation of the first amendment (Freedom of speech, press, etc).
Incidentally, anyone notice how similiar this is to the whole SDMI thing a couple months ago?
If they let Dmitry go, then that would set up a precidence, right?
I think you misunderstand how the Adobe e-book reader works. In your example, Mary copies an e-book file and gives it to John. You're correct in that the file copies perfectly. John then tries to open the e-book in his own reader, but it won't let him. You see, when Mary bought the e-book, her e-book program sent a unique key to the online bookstore, who encrypted the specific file which she purchased so that only her e-book reader could unencrypt it. John's program has a different unique key (as does every Adobe e-book reader), therefore he can't unencrypt the same file. All this happens automatically behind the scenes, without Mary's knowledge.
The program which Sklyarov wrote is very helpful for someone who purchased an e-book on one computer (say, a desktop computer with a fast broadband connection) but really would like to move it to another computer (say, their laptop). It's also helpful if you want to run an e-book through a text-to-speech processor (especially for blind people).
Adobe is mad because Sklyarov's program allows people to make useful copies. In the long run, they really just want to screw the consumer out of as much money as possible.
Dmitry was granted bail he will be released from Santa Clara Detention center before midnight Pictures from Rally and details here