[free-sklyarov] Recent editorial

[Nick Moffitt]

My mother passed this URL along to me

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,426427,00.asp
> Now, you're probably asking, "Does His Hirsuteness really think
> e-book hacking is worthy Katt fodder?" Well, it is when you consider
> that the company posting the information is the employer of Dmitry
> Sklyarov, the Russian programmer who was arrested last summer at the
> Def Con convention in Las Vegas. Sklyarov was arrested under the
> U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act for possession of his Advanced
> eBook Proccessor software. Possession of the software, which was
> capable of penetrating safeguards in Adobe's technology, got the
> 27-year-old programmer indicted under a DMCA provision against
> trafficking programs that circumvent technology protection. After
> online protesters rallied to the Russian's defense, Adobe eventually
> dropped its charges, and Sklyarov was allowed to go home.

-- 
Jack Valenti is to the American film viewer and the American public
as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone. 
      -- http://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm    (search for "Boston")