FC: Privacy, DMCA, Cybetpatrol, Net-security photos now online

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

I've put some recent politechnical photos online. Sine they're digital 
they're of course execrable, but I still haven't developed and scanned in 
the analog versions.

Yesterday's Linux-geek protest against the DMCA:
http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/photosearch.cgi?name=dmca

Photos from the Dallas and SF meetings of the Internet tax commission:
http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/photosearch.cgi?name=tax

The launch of the Congressional Privacy Caucus and the introduction of a 
Privacy Commission bill:
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/privacy.html

Attorneys involved in the Cyberpatrol hearing Monday in Boston:
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/cyberpatrol.html

U.S. Chamber of Commerce "cybersecurity" event:
http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/photosearch.cgi?name=chamber

-Declan

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35178,00.html

Geeks Protest, Nobody Comes
by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
11:50 a.m. Mar. 28, 2000 PST

WASHINGTON -- It wasn't exactly the Million Geek March.

It wasn't even a 100-hacker protest.

Only about 20 Washington-area Linux users and administrators showed up 
Tuesday morning in front of the Capitol building to protest a controversial 
federal law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Waving signs saying "DMCA Copyright or Wrong," they marched past the 
Supreme Court and the Library of Congress -- and got mostly puzzled looks.

"What's the DMCA?" asked one curious tourist. "Is it about the death penalty?"

Rally organizers were quick to call the event a trial run -- a kind of 
alpha test of open-source activism.

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