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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
That's partially true, but actually in the U.S. the anti-circumvention section of the DMCA has been used to, among other things, stop certain computer research.
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I tried to google this, but am failing to find research project(s) that were stopped. What did I miss?
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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
In 2001, a programmer was jailed for a few weeks after speaking at a conference.
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Googling shows this was Dmitry Sklyarov. He turned states evidence against his employer, which was
nonetheless acquited.
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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
The programmer wasn't accused of infringing copyright, merely working on software tools that could be used to break DRM.
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He wrote a commercial product to remove Adobe PDF DRM (this was before ePUB).
Further googling shows that the software he wrote, and his employer marketed, had its own customized scheme to prevent unauthorized copying of the software. And, ironically -- at least it's ironic to me -- the DRM breaking software's own DRM was broken.