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Das Email, das ich heute dazu erhalten habe:
~~Free Dmitry: Protest the Arrest and Indictment of Dmitry Sklyarov!~~
When: Friday Aug 31, noon CET
Where: Geneva, Switzerland
Meet at the "Broken Chair" in front of the UN building
Contact: Michele Jenkins free_dmitry_ch@hotmail.com
What: Carry signs, pass out leaflets, and spread the word.
Bring: A sign with a short, simple slogan to get the message across
Print: If you can print some flyers to hand out to folks, so much the
better. [see urls below for slogan ideas/flyers to print]
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Dmitry Sklyarov is a 26-year-old Russian citizen and Ph.D. student who
studies cryptography. He is the father of two children (2 1/2 year old
son, 3 month old daughter). Dmitry helped create the Advanced eBook
Processor (AEBPR) software for his Russian employer Elcomsoft.
Sklyarov was arrested by FBI agents July 17 while in Las Vegas to deliver a
lecture on electronic book security and charged with distributing a product
designed to circumvent copyright protection measures.
Aug 28th a grand jury handed down a five-count indictment. Sklyarov now
faces a prison term of up to twenty-five years and a US $2,250,000
fines.
Sklyarov and the company he works for did nothing wrong, and nothing illegal
under US or Russian law. Pointing out security weaknesses in poorly designed
systems is part and parcel of the computer security field. And helping
people convert content from one format to another that they can use is not a
crime. The complainant, Adobe, has even backed out of the case, leaving no
alleged victim for the US Dept. of Justice to defend in the first place.
The charges should be dropped immediately, and Dmitry should be allowed to
return to his family in Russia where he belongs.
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Free Dmitry Flyers
Free Dmitry Posters
URLs:
http://freesklyarov.org/
http://www.eff.org/
~~~~~~~~~Writing Software is Not a Crime! Free Dmitry!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Geht jemand hin?"
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