Re: Skylarov
- From: "Benjamin Chua" <bkjchua@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Skylarov
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:34:27 +0800
I am wondering what the American people are going to do (or are doing) about
the DMCA? Put pressure on elected Representatives? On the publishers?
Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Kline" <tonykline@[redacted]>
To: <spok+bookpeople@[redacted]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: [BP] Skylarov
> Dear All,
>
> I note that at the same time a Russian citizen, Skylarov, is prosecuted
> in the USA for changing a piece of Adobe software in a way that would
> allow others to perform an illegal act of copying, gun manufacturers
> in the same country are cleared of responsibility for the use made of
> the instruments they produce, with which others often illegally kill
> people. Very Curious! Does this indicate some arcane sense of values
> that I don't comprehend.....or the confusion of mind engendered by
> too much law at the service of big business and too little at the service
> of the decent individual citizen...or something else I equally don't
grasp.
>
> Secondly, the law being applied has the same problem as many other laws...
> o you ban things and have them go underground to the black market, or
> permit them and effectively support something you may find unacceptable
> but at least are able to see what's happening at the supply end of the
> chain? The law as applied to Skylarov seesm to me to be guaranteed not
> to prevent copyright mechanism subversion but to send it underground...
> as well I suspect as effectively issuing a challenge to the clever
> technicians out there to do it again but do it better and do it in
> secret. In the case of copying for free, how do you permit it without
> destroying the creator's lifetime rights...sure.... but how do you ban
> something so elusive?