I am an organizer of the DMCA protest at Stanford on Thursday, 18 May. It is for real. You can mail me at dmarti@zgp.org today with any questions, or call me on my cell phone at 408-621-7076 if you're (1) on the way with a busload of freedom-lovers (2) a reporter on deadline or (3) it's really really urgent. (Yes, this is important enough for me to post my cell phone number on Slashdot.) There will be an EFF press conference at the event -- I'll post the info on that to the protest site as soon as I know it.
Two requests: First, read up on the DMCA cases before you come so you can answer people's questions. Second, be polite and obey the law.
I personally think the Cyber Patrol case is the worst DMCA abuse so far, since Mattel basically used DMCA to censor an article and analysis that was critical of software it wants to install in public libraries. But some of you might be interested in the Slashdot/Microsoft mess or the DVD cases too. Hope to see you all there.
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Hi, I'm Don Marti, main contact person for the San Jose event.
We will be meeting as planned at the snake sculpture, in downtown San Jose at the corner of S. Market St. and W. San Carlos St., at 11:00 AM.
From there we can march on Adobe or go home as the situation requires.
I would put a Sun Tsu quote here but I am pretty busy right about now.
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Two requests: First, read up on the DMCA cases before you come so you can answer people's questions. Second, be polite and obey the law.
I personally think the Cyber Patrol case is the worst DMCA abuse so far, since Mattel basically used DMCA to censor an article and analysis that was critical of software it wants to install in public libraries. But some of you might be interested in the Slashdot/Microsoft mess or the DVD cases too. Hope to see you all there.
They must want a name that's not so GNUesque, so here are my suggestions.
Use Google to direct people to this slashdot.org article when they search for "Toshiba": http://electriclichen.c om/people/dmarti/toshiba_experiment/