Miriam English wrote:
>
> At 08:57 PM 19/07/2001 -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> > THis one has got me pretty freaked. The DMCA is broken
> > legislation to start with.
>
> Yes it is a very stupid law...
>
> > But that isn't bad enough. Now we
> > nab foreign nationals for supposedly violating its very
> > loosely
> > worded strictures.
>
> If you contravene a law in a country then you can expect to be
> nabbed in that country when you visit it. That has always been
> so hasn't it? I would have thought it logical.
>
What do you mean by "contravene"? He simply wrote papers and
produced a program to back up his papers on how broken the
protection schemes are. Also, he is not a citizen of this
country. The application of its laws must be handled a bit
differently. We have now seen the FBI nab foreign nationals not
engaged in things like espionage and even go into foreign
countries to arrest teenage kids over this stupid law. This
sets a very dangerous precdent.
> > - a smaller matter---
> > Adobe is also now on my boycott list. Does anyone know of a
> > good PDF reader on Windoze? I don't want to see their
> > company
> > logo for a good long while on any machine I am on. On
> > Gnu/Linux
> > I use xpdf. But it seems a bit of overkill to run an X
> > server
> > on windoze just to view pdf files at work.
>
> GhostGum with GhostScript.
> http://www.ghostgum.com.au/
>
Thanks!
- samantha
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