On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:37:43PM -0500, Simeon Johnston wrote: > http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/07/20/1228200&mode=nocomment > > Alan Cox resigns from Usenix. > > http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=593 > > Dmitry Sklyarov arrested for violating the DMCA. What's the DMCA? > > Sorry, I don't understand much of this.... But WTF, Well, the DMCA is the Digital Millenium Copyright Act which was passed a few years ago, and greatly tilts copyrights (among other things) in the favor of big corps. For a good discussion of this situation and the DMCA see: http://www.msnbc.com/news/602444.asp?0si=-&cp1=1 And for more coverage slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/20/1332227&mode=nested Also, it looks like a slashdot reader is trying to organize a Free Dmitri protest Monday 11-1 at the Saint Paul Federal Courthouse at 316 N Robert Street downtown. -- Jim Crumley | crumley at fields.space.umn.edu | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |