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

[Ringo Kamens]

Would anybody be interested in stickers? I would be willing to buy in
bulk and can easily find homes for 100-200 of them. I will not give up
until this issue is won and I think by stickering things, we are
creating a permanent way to resist. Stickers would be about .50 to .75
US and you could have to do a minimum order of 20. I would buy a big
bulk order and then ship them out to anybody who wanted them. Of
course, they would have the HD-DVD code printed right on them.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 5/1/07, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 historical reference.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
>