DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

[Black Unicorn]

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?

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----- Original Message -----
From: <George at Orwellian.Org>
To: "A bomb named 'Mike'" <cypherpunks at 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 at well.com> wrote:
> #
> #    FBI agents have arrested a Russian programmer for giving
> #    away software that removes the restrictions on encrypted
> #    Adobe Acrobat files.
>
>
>     "Nuts!"
>