[free-sklyarov] [Fwd: [DMCA_Discuss] Linux maven Bruce Perens: DMCA outlaw?]

Seth Johnson seth.johnson at RealMeasures.dyndns.org
Wed Jul 24 09:15:16 PDT 2002


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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:47:48 +0400
From: Vladimir Katalov <vkatalov at elcomsoft.com>


http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/23/020723hnperens.xml

> Perens said he plans to break the DMCA during a
> presentation on digital rights management (DRM)
> Friday afternoon at the O'Reilly Open Source
> Convention in San Diego. He is scheduled to
> demonstrate a souped-up DVD player that can
> circumvent certain DRM technologies created to
> control the availability of DVD movies by region.
> ...
> The Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was
> charged with violating the legislation with a
> program he developed that allowed users to crack
> Adobe Systems's eBook format. During a
> presentation at the Def Con hacker show in Las
> Vegas last July in which he detailed his work,
> Sklyarov was arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau
> of Investigation (FBI) for detailing the
> technology, which violated terms of the DMCA
> that prohibit the distribution of tools that
> facilitate illegal copying.
> 
> Perens admits, "what happened to Dmitry could
> conceivably happen to me as well." However, he
> said he is willing to take the risk.

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