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IP: FREE SKLYAROV protest in London - from NTK
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:23:12 -0400
From: "Rob Raisch" <info () raisch com> To: "David Farber" <dave () farber net> Despite fears of the usual authority-distrusting programmers milling around in "what do we do now?" disarray, we're pleased to report that, at time of writing, the UK's highest-profile FREE SKLYAROV protest went without a hitch outside the US embassy in London this lunchtime. Baffled onlookers and a van full of riot police had Sklyarov's unjustifiable incarceration [see previous NTKs] explained to them by means of leaflets, placards, chanting, "street theatre" reconstructions of his arrest, and impromptu filk versions of "YMCA" but with the lyrics changed to be about the "DMCA" instead. Attendance was estimated at "between 30 and 40" by organiser Dan Aykroyd, who doesn't look like he does on the telly at all, and "refused to be drawn" on why the other cast members of Sneakers couldn't make it. Assuming no other railway stations blow up between now and then, the whole thing should be on Newsnight at 10.30pm tonight, though we bet they just show the bit where we're wandering round Hyde Park trying to work out where the embassy is, with some smart-arse "geeks couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery" commentary from Paxman. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t281-s2092269,00.html - many from as far away as Cambridge and Underground Zone 4 http://www.xenoclast.org/freesklyarov/ - and a good time was had by all http://www.google.com/search?q=dmca+ymca - also thought this tune would go well with "My-S-Q-L"From NTK - Need To Know : the weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the ukhttp://www.ntk.net/ --rr (rob raisch) Senior Architect, http://www.imakenews.com/ providing end-to-end managed online newsletters
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