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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 01:33:25
-0500 Subject: Free Dmitry Of all the nauseating circumstances
surrounding the arrest of the Russian "hacker" Dmitry Sklyarov,
it is hard to determine which one to be apoplectic about. The FBI arrested him at a convention
in Las Vegas at the prompting of an American corporation that didn't like
his employer's products. Our country holds him without bail for writing
computer software in Russia that is legal in Russia. He is charged with
violating a US law which is undergoing constitutional challenges in two
federal courthouses. He faces more prison time for his non-violent act
than the man who threw the dog into traffic. What does this software do?
It allows you to read and copy e-books. His arrest does not begin to
save the world from hackers. Instead, it stands to wrap the long ropes
we've spun called "freedom of expression" and "human rights"
around our hypocritical necks. Chris Moseng
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