Hello, executives of Adobe Corporation, and thank you for reading
my message. I am writing to express my concern, displeasure, and
patent fear over your recent legal sanctions against Sklyarov and
his affiliated Russian company Elcomsoft. Instead of thanking him
for exposing the means by which many thousands of people have been
bypassing your copyright-protection scheme, you have decided to
arrest him under the auspices of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
You are disparaging and alienating the consumer. You seem to be
encouraging the development of a society that is subjugated to the
wills of corporations and does not respect the virtues of human
decency, creativity, and honesty. You were not stolen from by Sklyarov;
indeed he merely pointed out flaws in your E-book's encryptions
scheme. Mathematical analysis MUST NEVER BE A CRIME. You are creating
precedents that will forever alter our society. People fear that
we are moving from a free democracy to a totalitarian plutocracy,
and your company's actions seem to exemplify that. In your spurious
attempt to protect your profits, you have vilified yourselves. Combine
this with your $2000 attack against the NON-PROFIT developer of
KIllustrator (with the claim that consumers are so dense that they
will suddenly believe your product has been denigrated by some ethereal
means), your company looks like an incorrigible bastion of narrow-minded,
myopic businessmen who do not understand the
climate of technology and its effect on society today.
Instead of litigation, why do you not just make better products
instead? If you cannot, then you deserve to be shunned by the market.
The DMCA is a tool to abuse private citizens who engage in the act
of mathematical analysis, and is a shortcut to actually working.
Please gain some perspective on what the public at large thinks
of your actions against Sklyarov. I hope that my children and YOUR
children will both live in as free a society tomorrow as we enjoy today.
Thank you,
Me
*Yes, it is a bit dogmatic and preachy, but as a five-minute job it is effective.
How ironic that in announcing the plans for introducing high speed internet access for its country, the servers are experiencing the/. DoS and everything is barely crawling.
Haw. Haw. Haw.
Guess they just don't believe in G-Zus Kryst...
Kinesthesia: a rare and incredibly bizarre mental disorder in which an individual's perception of senory stimuli become shifted; i.e. one tastes visions, sees sounds, hears colors, and so forth.
I seriously pity all of these people who claim to tell me the "color" of the sound.
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How ironic that in announcing the plans for introducing high speed internet access for its country, the servers are experiencing the /. DoS and everything is barely crawling.
Haw. Haw. Haw.
Guess they just don't believe in G-Zus Kryst...
I seriously pity all of these people who claim to tell me the "color" of the sound.
Gives a new meaning to "touching music."