[free-sklyarov] Programmers sued, or at risk, for decryption work (fwd)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:11:06PM +0200, Jei (jei at cc.hut.fi) wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:36:48 -0500
> From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf at MIT.EDU>
> Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L at LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
> To: CYBERIA-L at LISTSERV.AOL.COM
> Subject: Programmers sued, or at risk, for decryption work
> 
>         With the indictment of Jon Johansen, I decided I'd make a list
> of all the programmers recently having or needing lawyers for their
> decryption or related work. Have I missed anybody here who should be
> on the list?
> 
> Dimitry Sklyarov - PDF decryption - criminal case
> 
> Jon Johansen - participating in DVD decryption program - criminal case
> 
> Unknown German - actual DVD decryption - anonymous
> 
> Matthew Skala and Eddy L.O. Jansson - CyberPatrol censorware - civil case
> 
> "Beale Screamer" - Microsoft lockware ("digital rights management") -
> anonymous
> 
> SDMI researchers (too many to mention all of them individually, but
> notably Felten, Craver, etc) - threats
> 
> Bennett Haselton - Cybersitter, I-Gear censorware - threats
> 
> Seth Finkelstein - various anticensorware work - 'nuff said

Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600, DeCSS.  Not sure if he fits your hacker cut.

Various named and unnamed plaintifs in the Santa Clara DeCSS case:

    http://www.dibona.com/social/dvd/cover/index.shtml

Peace.

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