EFFector 14.18: ALERT: Free-Dmitry Letter Campaign to DoJ (fwd)

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:07:06 -0400 (EDT)

  Just a small cut from the EFFector today which has a suggestion for what
people outside of the USA can do to help.  If you send letters to DFAIT, I
believe they should also be copied to the people involved in the copyright
reform process so that they can potentially better recognize the
can-of-worms they would be starting if they actually adopted similar
policies in Canada.



  I just became a member of the EFF today.  I know about the EFC
<http://www.efc.ca/> but they don't seem to be involved in the core issues
that need to be dealt with.  I do hope that in the future we'll be able to
get an EFF-Canada and a FSF-Canada set up with charity status so that
fundraising on these issues will be easier!


P.S.  I agree with Alan's notes : while I don't believe Dmitry should have
been charged with anti-circumvention as that is against basic free speach,
I'm not a fan of the company he works for which seems to also produce SPAM
software which is a totally different moral issue.

---
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
 Free Sklyarov http://www.dibona.com/dmca/ http://www.freesklyarov.org/ 
 http://www.flora.org/dmca/ Oppose DMCA in Canada! (C) reform process....
 http://russell.flora.org/drafts/copyright-2001.html My submission...

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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:45:48 -0700
From: EFF Newsletter Editors <editors@eff.org>
Subject: EFFector 14.18: ALERT: Free-Dmitry Letter Campaign to DoJ


    EFFector       Vol. 14, No. 18       Aug 8, 2001     editor@eff.org

   A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation     ISSN 1062-9424

[snip]

ALERT: Tell the DoJ to Drop the Charges Against Dmitry!

[snip]

      Activists Around the World

   If you are not a US resident, the US Department of Justice is unlikely
   to care about your opinion. It will be more effective for you to write
   to your country's equivalent of our Department of State (i.e., the
   branch that covers international diplomacy) and urge them to express
   their concerns to the US Dept. of State, and the US President (who
   ultimately controls the Justice Department). Ask your government to
   let our government know that prosecution of innocent foreign nationals
   under injust and questionably-valid laws is not going to go unnoticed
   anywhere, and can only harm trade and other relations.

    Background:

   For more information about the US v. Sklyarov Case see:
     http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/

   For yet more information on the DMCA see:
     http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/

   Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) About the US v. Sklyarov
   Case:
     http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/us_v_sklyarov_faq.html

   For more information on the grassroots effort to free Dmitry Sklyarov,
   see:
     http://www.freesklyarov.org/

   To join the free-sklyarov mailing list, see:
     http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov/

    About EFF:

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   government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the
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