while browsing packetstorm i came accross a link to an online petition to repeal the DMCA.

having the bad habit of reading something before i sign it i see this paragraph all the way at the bottom:

"Finally, we view with disgust the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov, who is charged with creating tools to read encrypted books. In the middle ages the pre-reform Catholic Church persecuted scholars who tried to translate the Latin bible into the common vernacular. Today encryption has replaced Latin as the tool of choice to stifle the right to read. The protestants who founded this nation, English bible in hand, would look upon the DMCA with the same disgust that they looked upon the evils of the medieval Catholic Church."

does any body think this kind of retoric is going to help the cause

http://www.petitiononline.com/nixdmca/