In a countrey where the mouths is all about free speech its dangerous to speak out about security flaws or write programs or to tell how you bypassed a protection...
U.S. officials on Tuesday indicted a Russian software programmer and his Moscow-based employer on charges of violating a controversial new U.S. copyright law, signaling the collapse of plea bargain talks in a case that has sparked international protests. Dmitry Sklyarov, 26, and ElcomSoft Co. Ltd were named in the five-count indictment filed in San Jose federal district court, prosecutors said. |
Sklyarov, who was released Aug. 6 on $50,000 bail, is the first person to be prosecuted under the DMCA, which took effect last year. He faces up to five years in prison and a $500,000 fine if convicted.
He wrote a program for ElcomSoft that allows people using Adobe Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:ADBE - news) eBook software to copy and print digital books, transfer them to other computers and have the text read aloud by the computer.
ElcomSoft sold the $99 program, called Advanced eBook Processor, on its Web site for about a month before taking it off the market in June after Adobe complained. The company claims the program is legal in Russia.
Adobe, which originally supported charges against Sklyarov and ElcomSoft, backed off that stance after meeting with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization promoting freedom of speech online.
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Dmitry Sklyarov will also speak on The Black Hat Briefings'01, November 21st- 22nd Amsterdam
Source: Yahoo
