[free-sklyarov] [DMCA_discuss] CNET - Security workers: Copyright law stifles

[Jon O .]

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Subject: [DMCA_discuss] CNET - Security workers: Copyright law stifles
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:30:08 -0700


http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7079519.html?tag=tp_pr

Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet
this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Along with the threatened lawsuit of Princeton computer-science professor Edward Felten, and
the arrest of Russian encryption expert Dmitry Sklyarov, the incidents are the latest to point at
what is quickly becoming a touchy environment for security experts. 

...

Dug Song, a security expert at network-protection company Arbor Networks, pulled his own
site down in protest as well. Now the only text on the site, "Censored by the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act," links to a DMCA protest site, Anti-DMCA.org. 

...

But it was the arrest and criminal indictment of Russian encryption expert Dmitry Sklyarov at
the Def Con hacking conference that really drove the point home. The incident also unnerved
Russian programmers thinking of visiting the United States. 

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7079519.html?tag=tp_pr

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