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

[Roger Sperberg]

This excerpt only includes the first two and the last two paragraphs of the
statement.

Foster says many other things, including: "Some people think Adobe has to
pursue this type of action to reassure publishers their content is safe. But
what publishers need to know is that Adobe understands the technology and
its current limits, and the problems with its own software, and that it
understands what our customers -- that is, readers-- need and what the
immature e-book industry needs in order to grow."

And:

"We also recognize from our close experience working with electronic books,
that readers need and deserve greater leeway with the e-books they purchase
than the current limited DRM and security technology provides," Foster
stated.

Or just follow the link to the EPC page on this--
www.epccentral.org/dmca.html


-----Original Message-----
From: free-sklyarov-admin at zork.net
[mailto:free-sklyarov-admin at zork.net]On Behalf Of alfee cube
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:03 PM
To: Andrew Lawrence; free-sklyarov at zork.net
Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Fwd: FYI:Not all Publishers agree with the
APA.


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."
>
> --
>  Keep posted about latest developements:
> http://freesklyarov.org
>  http://boycottadobe.org  http://www.anti-dmca.org
>
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