Saurik - so glad to have you here. Thank you for the very thoughtful post.
I've been trying to reach you via IRC for a few days now, find me on there if you have a minute (in the #iphone room).
You make a lot of very astute points, and I completely agree with most if not all of them. I deliberately kept the message in this post simple, to a degree due to pressure from the Atlantic (where the post was also replicated). But I very much agree with your analysis, and the fact that the larger issue is the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA, and I would perhaps add, shrink wrap licensing.
I wrote the text of the petition very quickly after hearing the news about the unlocking exemption to capture some of the attention being given to it at the time. My immediate reaction was simply to protect unlocking given my own background with it, but after understanding the larger issues in more detail, I think the scope of the petition should have been written differently. That being said, I'd still like to get it to the full number of signatures, even if it doesn't deal with all the issues involved. In the very least, it shows that the public care about these sorts of policy decisions.
At this point, having been working on this in various forms (via writing, or promoting this petition), I'm now quite eager to figure out exactly what needs to change with the DMCA and to help promote a movement to change the law in a more meaningful way. Working more closely with the EFF, and perhaps Jennifer Granick at Stanford, seems like the best way to proceed. If you (or indeed anyone reading this) is interested in helping, please reach out. I'm in your IRC channel now, and accessible via email/GChat at sina.khanifar@gmail.com.
I've been trying to reach you via IRC for a few days now, find me on there if you have a minute (in the #iphone room).
You make a lot of very astute points, and I completely agree with most if not all of them. I deliberately kept the message in this post simple, to a degree due to pressure from the Atlantic (where the post was also replicated). But I very much agree with your analysis, and the fact that the larger issue is the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA, and I would perhaps add, shrink wrap licensing.
I wrote the text of the petition very quickly after hearing the news about the unlocking exemption to capture some of the attention being given to it at the time. My immediate reaction was simply to protect unlocking given my own background with it, but after understanding the larger issues in more detail, I think the scope of the petition should have been written differently. That being said, I'd still like to get it to the full number of signatures, even if it doesn't deal with all the issues involved. In the very least, it shows that the public care about these sorts of policy decisions.
At this point, having been working on this in various forms (via writing, or promoting this petition), I'm now quite eager to figure out exactly what needs to change with the DMCA and to help promote a movement to change the law in a more meaningful way. Working more closely with the EFF, and perhaps Jennifer Granick at Stanford, seems like the best way to proceed. If you (or indeed anyone reading this) is interested in helping, please reach out. I'm in your IRC channel now, and accessible via email/GChat at sina.khanifar@gmail.com.