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Sklyarov Tells U.S. Court, 'I'm no hacker'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the semantics-aside dept.

DaytonCIM writes "Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer at the centre of the first Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prosecution, yesterday delivered his long-awaited testimony in the trial of his former employer, ElcomSoft." There are also stories at The Register and on CNET.

7 of 472 comments (clear)

  1. Re:"Didn't care that he violated US law" by Snoopy77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your comment is in violation of the Criminal Law Act under section 141 part B of Tajikistan. Extradiction proceedings are under way.

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  2. IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The DMCA controls YOU!

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    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
  3. IN CAPITALIST AMERICA by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 5, Funny

    The laws violate YOU!

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  4. Re:Violate US Law by morgajel · · Score: 5, Funny

    fact: quite a few politicians have affairs.
    fact: in some countries, adultury is punished by castration...

    wonder what the case would be if another country did that to a visiting US diplomat?

    do as we say, not as we do.

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  5. Re:Throw it out? by koreth · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ahh, good, so if as a consumer I want to read a protected document on my Palm instead of my PC, all I have to do is go back to college, get an advanced math degree, bring myself up to speed on the state of the art in encryption, learn how to program on both platforms, figure out the encoding the document uses, write an app to crack it, and I'm all set.

    Right, best be getting to it, then.

    Good thing the law protects me from buying the end result from someone else instead of going through the process myself -- without doubt, a law that promotes that sort of self-sufficient, can-do spirit is just the sort of thing that made this country great.

  6. What is going on here? by Mattwolf7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go to http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressrel eases/200107/dmca.html (Sorry not sure how to link here)

    Go all the way down to the bottom of the page and click on the U.S. Attorney's office link....

    Is it porn for you too? Did they get hacked?

  7. CHECK OUT THE LINK ADOBE POSTED! by ssstraub · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what's more unbelievable. That Adobe posted this link or that no one on /. has caught it yet!

    -Go to Adobe's press release.
    -Scroll down to the last question.
    -Click on the US Attorney's office link.

    Something tells me that Sophy's going to be getting a lot of revenge real soon... LMAO!