[free-sklyarov] Fwd: FYI:Not all Publishers agree with the APA.

[Andrew Lawrence]

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Subject: FYI:Not all Publishers agree with the APA.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:06:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "J.E. Cripps" <cycmn at nyct.net>
To: <ausage at ausage.com>


The free-sklyarov list isn't taking my posts :-(
Also I don't have time to edit this into anything shorter.


Here's some background and comment from Electronic Publishers Coalition
EPC Condemns Criminal Use of DMCA http://www.epccentral.org
His (or his company's) product is legal in many European countries.

"While all publishers are concerned about professional copyright
thieves, the Electronic Publishers Coalition condemns the use of the
criminal provisions of the DMCA against Dimitry Sklyarov, a Russian
programmer and cryptanalyst visiting the United States."

"Persecution of an individual shouldn't be any company's response to
a commercial disagreement, especially regarding copyright," Connie
Foster, the EPC executive director said Sunday."

"Sklyarov, a graduate student at Bauman Moscow State Technical
University, reported at a Las Vegas conference on his research on
e-book security performed for his dissertation. His research was later
incorporated into a permissions-removal program called Advanced E-book
Processor, or AEBPR, by ElcomSoft, a Russian software company that now
employs him. The program apparently sold fewer than ten copies before
being pulled from the market at Adobe's insistence. It had not been
available commercially for more than two weeks before Sklyarov's visit
to America."

"AEBPR allows users to make backups of legally purchased Adobe eBooks
that ignore the eBooks' restrictions on copying, printing and lending,
if any, and permit the eBook to be read on a replacement copy of Adobe
eBook Reader if the initial installation no longer functions or if the
user upgrades to a new computer. It does not work with eBooks sold to
another user. Since under Russian law, such backups are mandatory for
data sellers, Adobe eBooks contravene the law and AEBPR is legal in
Russia, as well as in Germany and Scandinavia, and other countries.
Its use in the U.S. is not permitted under the DMCA, the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act."

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