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Sklyarov Released On $50,000 Bail
Mike Schiraldi was the first to write about Dmitry Sklyarov's release from jail, even before it happened: "According to this live report from the courtroom, Dmitri will probably be out of jail real soon now. Of course, he still won't be allowed to leave Northern California, but it's a start ..." Soon after, inaneboy pointed out this Reuters story on yahoo which says that Sklyarov has been released, on 50,000 dollars bail, raised by his employer, ElcomSoft.
phalse phace wrote to say that the EFF has just posted an announcement as well as some background.
He's gonna have a lot of e-mail to catch up on. Wasn't he in jail for the whole SirCam bit?
BilldaCat
I think the feds should pay HIM $50,000 personally and get him on a private luxery jet home and get down on their knees and beg for forgivness :)
What is Think Geek going to do with all of those Free Dimitri shirts they just got in? Nobody is going to want them now....
he still won't be allowed to leave Northern California...
Which earnestly solicits the question "may he code???"
The message our lawmakers are sending to hackers is clear; leave the copy protection alone and instead just beat the f*cking shit out of the copyright holder.
Hey, that calls for an "Open Beating" project!
Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec
If god had intended you to be naked, you would have been born that way.
As Winston Churchill said (keep in mind his mother was American), "You can count on the Americans to do the right thing, once they've exhausted every other possible course of action."
Free as in *BUUURP!*
Is this a precursor to the widely expected split of California into North and South? Where is the boundary between these (soon to be two) states that Dimitry cannot cross?
Props to him on his bold defense of international freedom of speech.
-Ben
> His employer raised that money? That's great! Talk about dedication! More companies should back their employees in this manner.
> I can hardly believe this; are they hiring???
Why, you planning on getting arrested?
Thus allowing him to stay in the country, work to make enough money to eat and fuel the U.S legal system. (not necessarily in that order)
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
yeah, first post after #84...
speaking of which i got first post too, right after the one before this one...
Hey, that calls for an "Open Beating" project!
Would that be a sub-component of the "Open Sores" project?"Free Beatings" was of course around first and ethically superior. That's 'free' as in 'your joints will come free of their sockets' not as in 'beer'
If it's the latter, I think the best course of action is for him to wander around San Fransisco asking for directions to the nuclear wessels.
Maybe we could do "DistributedBeating.net" - everybody piss off one copyright holder at a time on your computer's spare time.
Wait, this is starting to sound too much like Napster...
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
Of course the gun lobby is better armed....
Book publishers say they need a tough law like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or
they'll never be able to make money selling electronic books.
Gee. I wonder if I can get the U.S. Congress to pass a law that says I have to be able to make a profit, no matter what stupid business I decide to get into.
It is Irish. That's the point. As far as I can tell, there are six different types of beer:
Stout, e.g. Guinness
Real Ale, e.g. JHB from Oakham
Brown Ale, e.g. Newcastle (Nukie) Brown
Bitter, e.g. Victoria Bitter (VB), Fiji Bitter
Lager, e.g. Heineken, Steinlager.
Sugar water that the cat slept in, e.g. Budweiser, Tooheys, Fosters.