On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:33:25PM -0700, James S. Kaplan wrote: > > No offense to my friends here, but I agree with Jim, perhaps Seth is > correct that software use *may* be affected, but the end result of > all this hoopla is so small in the realm of possibility that any one > of us will be SERIOUSLY affected as to make the whole issue all > about political views and NOT about real and pertinent > issues. Suffice it to say Sklyarov's situation is between he and > DOJ...*we* can petition our lawmakers off this list and in the most > appropriate venues tyvm. > Right at the moment, it is entirely possible that other software developers will be arrested for very little reason--Alan Cox, a major British Linux kernel developer, has already said that he will not travel to the USA for fear of arrest. I don't think citizens are immune; it's difficult to escape the sense that the people who designed the DMCA would ban free software in its entirety, if they could figure how to do it. Randolph
