Sklyarov Indicted

Nutcase was the first to write with news from the AP that "Dmitry Sklyarov, 27 and ElComSoft Co. Ltd. of Moscow were charged with five counts of copyright violations for writing a program that lets users of Adobe Systems' eBook Reader get around copyright protections imposed by electronic-book publishers." Here's a link to the AP story at the Washington Post. Here is the story at Salon as well. Update: 08/29 01:57 AM GMT by T : Here's the EFF's release on the indictment, too -- including information about where to go if you'd like to demonstrate your reaction publicly.

Comments

Re:One word:

[Rimbo]

Actually, I agreed with you. I don't know who modded down your post. I'll repost what you said here, because frankly, it didn't deserve being modded down:

Here's my one word:

Karma whore.

Okay, it's two. But I can't believe you used your +1 posting bonus to post something that redundant, off-topic, trollish, and stupid. I hope the moderators exact their vengeance against you and moderate your post down into the fiery depths of hell where it -- and you -- belong for all eternity.

My post was pretty lame. But on the other hand, it's what I was thinking at the time, and I reckon a lot of folks pretty much thought the same thing when they read the news.

I don't think anyone expected Sklyarov to not be indicted, but there's always that little glimmer of hope we hold onto...