DID DMITRI VIOLATE RUSSIAN LAW? NYET!
The Russian official responsible for fighting high-tech crimes in that
country says that programmer Dmitri Sklyarov, arrested in Las Vegas for
violating U.S. digital copyright laws, broke no Russian laws. "If this case
was being reviewed in Russia, we would have nothing against Dmitri Sklyarov.
No crime falling under current Russian law has been committed." Sklyarov,
now out on $50,000 bail, is charged with having violated the 1998 Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by promoting software capable of evading
the encryption used by Adobe's eBook Reader. Adobe has dropped its support
of the case. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 9 Aug 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/075617.htm
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