Ok. That's pretty much my limit. When a foreign national can be arrested for a bit of coding which was developed (I assume) outside the US and never, by his actions (I assume) hit US soil well it really is time for the DMCA to go. I'd be interested in talking to cypherpunks who actually would like to do something activist about eliminating this legislative scourge and hopefully doing something a bit more substantial than EFF or CPSR has been doing on the subject. Is there a legal fund developing for our wayward Russian or an anti-DMCA fund? Am I giving EFF and CPSR a bad rap? Should we be giving them money earmarked exclusively for anti-DMCA activities? Where is the usually outspoken John Gilmore after his landmark essay on the topic? ( http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html ) Where can reverse engineering be conducted in the world anymore without felonies being leveled? Does anyone care? 0x5EECF144 - 3072/1024 E1E1 3903 6880 62BE 7FAC 22BD 080C A545 5EEC F144 ----- Original Message ----- From: <George@Orwellian.Org> To: "A bomb named 'Mike'" <cypherpunks@lne.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:28 AM Subject: Re: FBI arrests Russian hacker visiting U.S. for alleged DMCA breach
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> wrote: # # FBI agents have arrested a Russian programmer for giving # away software that removes the restrictions on encrypted # Adobe Acrobat files.
"Nuts!"