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

alfee cube sisgeek at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 25 13:02:39 PDT 2001


am i overlooking something - their Dymitry statement
is not obvious to me?

--- Andrew Lawrence <ausage at ausage.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 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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