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?

EFF is doing it's thing, which was semi-effective and is now not much effective at all - I just don't see advances, just declines in freedoms. On the other side, encryption and strong anonymity render DMCA ineffective, but after 10 years of PGP and mixmasters only few thousand use any. So we want thinking to be legal while visible. What is left to do ? Maybe some clever propaganda along the lines "End of the world: russian arrested in US of A for thought crime". Or make it desirable to be prosecuted for thought crimes: send money directly to the russian. Sort of inverse AP - whoever gets arrested for DMCA gets paid. Buy some ad space in papers and get the message out. Running decent-size ads will take many K$. Maybe if a number of contributors insist on this EFF would coordinate it ? How does one round up contributors in cpunkish environment ? The issue here is to not preach to the choir. Preaching to sheeple is *expensive*, and the gain ("more freedom") is far away and very few will commit actual cash to it. Anyway, I may know some that would - how do we get EFF to do directed campaign ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/