Sklyarov Update

Seth Schoen writes: "Dmitry Sklyarov's arraignment has been rescheduled to Thursday, August 30. It's at the same location where it was originally supposed to take place this past Thursday. The arraignment is scheduled for 9:30am PT, Thursday, August 30. The hearing will be held with US Magistrate Judge Richard Seeborg presiding, in courtroom 4, 5th floor of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Branch, 280 South 1st Street, in San Jose, California." Schoen continues: "This week is also LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. Since many Sklyarov supporters are Linux users, there should be a lot of activity around the conference. Two events have been scheduled this week in San Francisco to take advantage of LinuxWorld:

Free Dmitry party and fundraiser, Wednesday, August 29, 7:30p to midnight, 201 Ritch Street, 2nd floor. (This is walking distance from Moscone Center, where LinuxWorld is being held.)

This party will feature speeches by Lawrence Lessig and Richard Stallman.

Free Dmitry protest march, Thursday, August 30 (same day as the arraignment), leaving Moscone Center at 11:30a, parade through the city to the Burton Federal Building in Civic Center.

Five other events that same day have so far been reported to the freesklyarov.org calendar: Boston, MA; Moscow, Russia; London, UK; Los Angeles, CA; Black Rock City, NV (at the Burning Man festival)."

Comments

Re:Finally, some news from Russia

[Rimbo]

When this whole thing started, I remember thinking about this very thing...where is the outrage from the Russian government? The citizens of Russia probably don't have the same quality of information channels Westerners do, which is probably why it's taken this long for the first protests to be organized. But I seem to recall when a few Chinese-American and even Chinese nationals living in the USA were arrested for similar reasons in China, President Bush didn't hesitate to ship Colin Powell overseas to secure their release.

But then, seeing how our people have the freedom to learn and speak out against policies we disagree with, and seeing how our government works not just for citizens but for anyone who wants a piece of the pie to have our freedoms, I can't help but be thankful that I'm lucky enough to live here.

I just hope the DMCA is ditched soon enough that I won't end up changing my mind.

Re:How are his wife and kids?

[Linux Freak]

I don't think the original poster was suggesting Russians can't take care of their own affairs, but that Skylarov was arrested unfairly under an American law and so it should perhaps be Americans who contribute financially as a means of retribution.

Re:How are his wife and kids?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's a tempting trap to fall into. Tempting, yes, but a trap nonetheless. It's far too easy to donate $5 or $50, and feel like you've "done the right thing."

The "right thing" is to make sure her husband doesn't go to prison for 5 years and/or get permanently expelled from the US. The "right thing" is harder than clicking on a paypal icon. The "right thing" requires you to get involved.

Are you involved? Honestly?

Maybe he should have thought about it first

[Anonymous Coward]

Before hacking someone else algorithmns (yeah yeah so fucking what if its not security - its still Adobes) and commiting a crime under US law and then coming to the US and making a big deal about if as if he could get away with anything if he wrapped himself in the flag of free software and free information.

now hes been caught and has to face the consequences of the crime his wife and kids have to suffer - this guys no hero to me or anyone else - hes a hacker and a loser and he will go to jail - i feel sorry for his family - their father was too arrogant to think about them in all this.

Re:Finally, some news from Russia

[Kierthos]

Very true. Headline News has a "Global Minute" where they barely gloss over stories taking place outside of the U.S. (well, unless it's Isrealis attacking Palestinians, or vice versa... that seems to make the main news segment all the time). And I know of several supposedly international organizations that are so U.S.-centric that it's not even funny.

But you also have to realize that for a lot of news agencies, this isn't what they consider news. It's an "evil hacker" being prosecuted. And since many of the news agencies are owned by companies that support the DMCA (AOL Time-Warner springs to mind), they don't want to report the fact that someone has been arrested for performing an act that is legal in Russia but illegal in the U.S.A.

Ironic that the U.S. has the totalitarian jack-booted thugs now and Russia is claiming for release of one of their citizens...

Kierthos