[free-sklyarov] ElcomSoft verdict: Not guilty

[chandler]

Yes, this is an odd business. The judgement seems to be just woolliness
(I suppose that's Legal Mind for you)


[snip]
> U.S. Assistant
> Attorney Scott Frewing charged that company representatives knew all
> along that they were violating the DMCA by designing and offering the
> software to the public. 

Interesting thought: the programmers and management in a Russian company
in Russia are assumed to spend their time thinking about US law.
Whatever the US government might think, I don't believe any other
government has ever acknowledged this supposed pan-galactic jurisdiction
for one particular country. Or is it assumed that in the same way,
American programmers spend lots of their time boning up on Egyptian,
Venezuelan, and Japanese law?


> ... turned on ElcomSoft's state of mind during the period it was offering
> the software. 

I should think anyone who is thinking constantly about all the laws of
the hundred whateveritis countries that belong to the United Nations
would have a pretty complicated state of mind, actually.

Brian Chandler
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