Ashcroft Targets U.S. Cybercrime

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Sat Jul 21 15:11:54 PDT 2001


At 04:01 PM 7/21/01 -0700, John Young wrote:
>And why are the protests limited to Adobe when the FBI and
>DoJ are doing the dirty work -- well, actually, low-level FBI
>and DoJ? Oops, that's right, don't fuck with workers-pissed-
>at-their-bosses who have the guns which they'd like to turn
>upstairs.

Agreed. In the end, it's not Adobe that's the problem. Many companies like 
the DMCA and many will use it to seek advantage in the market. Targeting 
Adobe misses the larger picture.

A unanimous Congress enacted it and a grinning President Clinton signed it. 
They should be the proper targets of protest.

-Declan





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