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Originally Posted by Jim Lester
The following is my own personal opinion, and does not represent the view of anyone else - especially not Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Well yes he was arrested after giving the lecture, but that doesn't give the correct flavor of what happened.
1.) It was done at Black Hat because it was on US soil (no extradition)
2.) It was done specifically after the presentation instead of before, since it was his selling of the software that was the issue (not the presentation)
3.) Not often discussed in the case, but he was also distributing copies of his company's software at BlackHat.
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Very interesting. Thanks for that. For the benefit of those who haven't followed the link that I posted earlier (Post #410), here's the full text from
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books:
"In July 2001, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested by the FBI after delivering a lecture describing the weaknesses of "e-book" access control systems. The arrest was made at the request of Adobe, which sells some of the access control systems that were demonstrated to be flawed in Sklyarov's talk. Sklyarov was charged with distributing a program he had written in Russia that a reader could use for disabling some of these access controls for Adobe-formatted "ebooks" after they had bought them. This article from EFF describes some of the free speech and fair use issues at stake. And Dave Touretzky is now building up a Gallery of Adobe Remedies as a companion to his Gallery of DVD decoders. (By December 2002, charges against Sklyarov had been dropped, and his company was acquitted of the charge of willfully violating the DMCA.)"