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Noon Monday 17 September 2001: Rally to Free Dmitry Sklyarov



 From: secretary@lxny.org
 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 04:50:47 -0400


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Noon Monday 17 September 2001 at
 41st Street and Fifth Avenue, before the
 New York Public Library, on the
 Island of Manhattan, there will be a
 rally to free Dmitry Sklyarov.

Note that this is not an LXNY event, but rather the
 ninth of a series of rallies, whose
 Lead Organizer and First Contact is

Leonid Gorkin
lgorkin@excite.com or lgorkin1@nyc.rr.com


<tactical
  importance="high">

Do not bring any sticks to this rally.

There is a New York City regulation forbidding sticks at gatherings.

The New York City police officers who told us of this regulation were
 parfit gentle in their courtesy.

</tactical>


There have been and will be rallies in about twenty cities
http://freesklyarov.org/calendar

Much of the organizing of New York City Rallies to Free Dmitry take place
 on the fairuse mailing list of NYFairUse, which list may be joined at
http://www.nyfairuse.org

To download a flyer go to
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/dmitry-links

For more information:
http://freesklyarov.org
http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov
http://eff.org
http://www.dibona.com/dmca
http://www.templetons.com/brad/free.html
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0108.html


<personal
  who="Jay Sulzberger">

This week the United States of America was attacked.

 One big objective of the attack is to
 drive us to forget our Bill of Rights.

 We will not forget.

 We have a right to use our computers in our homes
 as we see fit.

 We will defend this right
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/bor.html

Dmitry Sklyarov has been indicted.

 If convicted on all counts he faces 25 years in prison.

 He is accused of distributing a tool to manipulate files
 in certain Adobe formats.

 All manipulation occurs inside a single computer.

 The tool checks as best it can that the
 file it operates on is owned by
 the person running the tool.

 Under the DMCA, distribution of such a tool
 is a felony.

 If traditional copyright law were like the DMCA, then
 distribution of paper, pencils, ink, pens, and cameras
 would also be a felony.

 Today computers for home and business use contain
 no spy hardware nor any spy software,
 except for certain Trojans which may
 have slipped past the owner's defenses.

 Under the DMCA and further federal legislation
 proposed by Senator Hollings all personal computers
 will be required to contain over one megabyte of
 spy firmware which will monitor every single read
 and write of the hard disk.

 Under the proposed legislation the operating system will
 report back to Infotainment Central any
 "suspicious use" of the hard disk.

 Law enforcement agencies will easily get secret
 writs of computer tapping and be able to
 watch everything you do at home on
 what once was your own machine.

 Infotainment Central will be able to
 disable your computer without permission from you.

Indictment:
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/technology/31HACK.html
http://cryptome.org/dmitry-indict.htm
http://cryptome.org/dmitry-burton.htm

Proposed legislation:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html
http://cryptome.org/sssca
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0109.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/16/1647231
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/conversations/0034.html

Our rallies and all the work of propaganda and
 education have been important in alerting the world to
 the threat facing not only Dmitry, but
 everyone who uses computers and
 everyone who uses the Great Commons of the Net.

 Despite our alert, the government of the United States
 has chosen to prosecute Dmitry.

 Our response must be clear, forceful, and effective.


Why do we rally at the New York Public Library?

 Because the Association of American Publishers has
 declared that they plan to close down
 all free public libraries.

 Their chosen tool is the
 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

 As demonstrated by the indictment of Dmitry Sklyarov,
 the DMCA does indeed outlaw fair use of books that you,
 or the library, have bought and paid for
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36584-2001Feb7.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-6545588-0.html
http://www.visi.com/~tneu/pro-book.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/23/pirate/index.html
http://www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/index.html
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/comments
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/boucher_ashcroft_dmca.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July01/ginsparg.archive.ws.html
http://arXiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html
http://xxx.lanl.gov
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu
http://www.baen.com/library/home.htm
http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/article.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/opinion/30LESS.html
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/07/lessig.html
http://www.immaterial.net/page.php3?id=44
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue12/LU12-ebenmoglen.html
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu
http://cryptome.org
http://www.ala.org

We need marchers and leafleteers and copiers of leaflets
 and designers of leaflets and propagandizers and lobbyists
 and lawyers and coders and water carriers and publicists
 and diplomats.

 Come to the Rally and help!
 Come to the Rally and meet allies!


Dmitry Sklyarov today faces twenty-five years in prison for
 distributing a program which allows you to make
 fair use of books you have bought and paid for.

 Come to the Rally and help get Dmitry free!
 Free to go home and free to do his work.

</personal>

Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
 Corresponding Secretary LXNY
 LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org

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