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Copyright Trial Set for ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov

Posted by timothy on from the willingly-and-with-aforethought dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The first criminal trial under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act will begin Aug. 26, a Federal judge decided Monday. The case is U.S. v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov, CR-01-20138RMW."

7 comments

  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    First Post?

  2. What a waste! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't waste your fr1st ps0t by saying something lame and timid like that! Say something funny/bizarre/creative for godssakes! And have some conviction! Say something like, I don't know:

    "I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD AND I HAVE ACHIEVED FIRST POST... PREPARE FOR MY JUDGMENT"

    Or at least something like:

    "I claim this first post in the name of my balls: Harry (left) and Mr. Nut (right)."

    Now go forth with this wisdom.

    1. Re:What a waste! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Third post? Or maybe fourth, I really hate this 20 second delay.

      STEPHEN JAY GOULD WENT TO HELL FOR BEING A DIRTY DARWINIST!

  3. What do Kangaroos like to eat? by infonography · · Score: 1
    It's a Kangaroo court. Just like Operation SunDrivel. It bears watching mostly to see what points they are going after hardest.

    Beyond that there isn't much of a case to be made.

    --
    Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
    1. Re:What do Kangaroos like to eat? by pagan26 · · Score: 1

      These kangaroos like money and LOTS of it.....

      --
      Open Source: Every now and then, you get what you don't pay for.
  4. Copy of the article (slashdotted) by Chinese+Karma+Whore · · Score: -1

    SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The first criminal trial under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act will begin Aug. 26, a federal judge decided Monday.

    ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. of Moscow could be fined $500,000 if convicted of selling a program that let users circumvent copyright protections on electronic-book software made by Adobe Systems Inc.

    Said the presiding jury of the case, "We feel that very serious issues are at hand here. Copyright circumvention is a very serious offense."

    Programs that function as circumvention devices are legal in Russia but banned under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Attorneys for the company failed this month to convince a judge that the law is too broad, vague and unconstitutional.

    The case originally involved ElcomSoft programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who was arrested after speaking at a hacker convention in Las Vegas last July. But prosecutors agreed in December to drop charges against him after the company's case is resolved.

    Sklyarov is currenly in federal custody in Willington, MA.

    The case is U.S. v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov, CR-01-20138RMW.

    * __

    On the Net:

    Prosecutors: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/index-2.html

    ElcomSoft: http://www.elcomsoft.com

    1. Re:Copy of the article (slashdotted) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Sklyarov is currenly in federal custody in Willington, MA.

      Actually, he is in Moscow, working for ElcomSoft (since Dec'2001).