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ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty

Posted by michael on from the merry-christmas-adobe dept.

truthsearch writes "From News.com: 'A jury on Tuesday found a Russian software company not guilty of criminal copyright charges for producing a program that can crack anti-piracy protections on electronic books.' HUGE legal win against the DMCA. Thank you Lawrence Lessig."

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  1. Hammers and Other Tools Beware by dl248 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Follow me on this....

    Someone invents a tool to perform some action, and of course this tool can be used for something other than intended. For example, you invent the hammer, its purpose is to pound nails into wood. Wonderful.

    Now just because someone else uses a hammer to bludgeon someone to death, does this make the hammer illegal? Of course not.

    I think that we should focus on who is weilding the tool, not necessarily the tool itself.

    My 2 cents.

    (and please lay off the tool jokes ;-)