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Sklyarov Discusses the ElcomSoft Trial
DaytonCIM writes "Dmitry Sklyarov talks openly about the ElcomSoft trial to CNET News. The 'Russian programmer thinks it was unfair of prosecutors to play his videotaped deposition at the ElcomSoft trial rather than calling him to the stand.'"
sorry, Canada is full. Funny how you picked all nations from the Commonwealth, eh? For Americans, all your choices have been narrowed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia or Haiti.
We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
Don't make statements when what you really want to do is ask questions. I'm not about to debate with such stupidity. But I'm sick of hearing this nonsense over and over. Back up your fucking statement. Read the fucking indictment. You'll learn as you try that you are wrong.
You may not agree with it, but that doesn't make it false.
Doesn't make it true either.
The DMCA has nothing to do with copyright law.
The DMCA is copyright law. And presumably you mean the circumvention parts of the DMCA have nothing to do with copyright law. But even that is untrue.
Unauthorized reproduction of an existing work is already protected BY Copyright, if you copy something for a purpose other than archival backup or fair use, you are already in violation of the law.
So?
OTOH, the DMCA makes it a crime to build a tool which might allow you to copy (or access) copyrighted material.
No, it makes it a crime to manufacture a tool which is primarily designed to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work.
Under the DMCA, a web browser could be considered illegal, as it translates an encrypted (HTML) data source which might be copyrighted, into a readable (plain text) format.
So why don't you initiate a lawsuit against Microsoft then? Is it maybe because you're wrong, and a web browser couldn't be considered illegal?
An equivalent would be if you were to spend years carving an intricate wooden statuette, and then someone threw you in jail because somebody *MIGHT* come along and use it to club someone over the head.
That would be a great law. I think statuettes should be illegal.
Fuckin' idiot.