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Re: Russian's case shows severity of copyright law
FYI I have a very nice (IMHO) and concise collection of Dmitry info here:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sklyarov
-Declan
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:55:42AM +1000, David Goldstein wrote:
> Russian's case shows severity of copyright law
> On July 16, Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer, was arrested in
> Las Vegas. Mr. Sklyarov, who is employed by a Moscow-based software
> company called Elcomsoft, was charged with violating criminal
> provisions contained in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a U.S.
> copyright law statute. He is currently being held without bail and
> faces a maximum penalty of a $500,000 (U.S.) fine and five years in
> prison.
>
> Mr. Sklyarov's alleged crime? He is the author of software that
> breaks the encryption used by Adobe in its e-book program, converting
> the encrypted text into the standard, easy-to-share PDF format.
>
> http://news.globetechnology.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=globetechnology/TGAM/NewsFullStory.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=TWGEISY&date=20010726
>
>
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