[free-sklyarov] SJ hearing this morning

[Greg Broiles]

I just got back from this morning's hearing in federal court in San Jose - 
not much happened. Dmitry and Alex Katalov were there, with Joe Burton - 
Dmitry and Elcomsoft both plead "not guilty" to the five counts charged in 
the indictment, and another hearing date was set for September 4 at 9:00 AM 
in Judge Whyte's courtroom.

Judge Whyte is not unfamiliar with technology and the Internet - he was the 
judge who ruled, in _RTC v. Netcom_, that Netcom could potentially be held 
liable for contributory copyright infringement when one of their downstream 
customers used their network access to violate the Church of Scientology's 
copyright; he also presides over the _Sun v. Microsoft_ suit concerning 
Microsoft's license to use Sun's Java source code and trademark; and he 
presided over _Ebay v. Bidder's Edge_, where he ruled that Bidder's Edge's 
spidering of Ebay's auction site, over Ebay's objections (in English and 
via robots.txt), was a trespass and subject to a preliminary injuction.


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Greg Broiles
gbroiles at well.com
"We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids