[BadVista Advocate] Act In Solidarity And Use Civil Disobedience To Defeat DRM!

[Ringo Kamens]

Communique from Comrade Ringo Kamens:
As many of you know, the MAFIAA and DVDCCA has been chasing after
people for distributing copies of DeCSS for years and is still issuing
cease and desist letters. With the release of HDDVD and Blue Ray they
again attempted to use DRM to restrict our rights and failed. It was
cracked fairly quickly and one of our fellow comrades recovered a
decryption key to use on these videos. Because of the work of these
brave brothers and sisters around the world, your fair use rights have
been restored (although you can't legally exercise them on DRMed
content). Almost immediately, the "intellectual property" owners
started their own cease and desist campaign to censor this valuable
key:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS THEFT
That key can decrypt your movies so you can exercise your fair use
rights. Please distribute it as far and widely as possible. By posting
to these mailing lists, I have probably put it into a few hundred mail
boxes. What can you do? Write it on a wall, sticker it on your
computer, draw it in the sand. Host it on your site, whatever you do,
GET IT OUT THERE. if you put the key online and receive a Cease and
Desist letter it is up to you what you want to do. You may resist and
probably face a small risk of lawsuit but if you immediately remove
the content you will negate all that risk. While they still reserve
the right to sue or jail you, nobody has ever had that action taken
against them even when doing obvious acts of civil disobedience. If
you take it down, please send the C+D letter to chillingeffects.org
and forward it (headers and all) to 2600denver at gmail.com for legal and
historical reference. --We need to document this oppression so we can
fight it.-- Again, please distribute this key as far and wide as
possible. Put it in a song, send a letter to the editor of your
newspaper, etc. Thousands of your comrades online are already
distributing the key online. The key reached the front page of digg
twice (after being censored both times), reached the front page of
slashdot, reached the front page on reddit, and it already being
widely circulated. We need to keep up the circulation and keep
fighting this was until we win. Our comrades broke the encryption, now
do your duty and defend your rights. These brave souls have thrown the
first stone, don't let them die alone!

Yes, I'm asking you to break the law
Comrade Ringo Kamens