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Stardate 20011126.1527 (On Screen): Remember Dmitry Sklyarov? Well, he's out on bail but he can't go home. Now they've scheduled his trial -- for next July. (Never let it be said that the US legal system is in a hurry to settle anything.)

We need to keep holding Adobe responsible for this; they got off much too easily. They bitched to the FBI about Sklyarov because he cracked their inept crypto, and then after an uproar they issued a joint statement with the EFF saying that he should be freed, knowing full well that it wouldn't happen. And by so doing they were able to duck the PR issues raised by the fact that they are responsible for him being arrested. (EFF got conned; they owe all of us an apology.)

I don't think Adobe should be let off that easily. What with all the other colored-ribbon projects, and thus and so -- maybe a "Boycott Adobe!" button project? Which points to one of the web pages which discusses the case and makes clear Adobe's involvement in it? The only way that American corporations are going to get the message is if one of their own is badly harmed commercially because it used DMCA like this. Adobe must suffer lost sales as long as Sklyarov is being held in the US; the boycott should end the day he gets on a jet bound for Moscow. (discuss)

But not to these wusses.