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

[Michael D. Stemle, Jr.]

On Tuesday 01 May 2007 20:26:32 Ringo Kamens wrote:
> 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
>
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Let me know how much it'll be please and I'll see how much I can contribute.

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