The Newspaper Shop -- Monday edition

[TankGirl]

Thanks again, Mr. Newsman!

Originally posted by walktalker
Confusion over copyright and free speech
Dimitri Sklyarov is an unlikely poster boy for American freedom. The Russian programmer was arrested after he spoke at the "Def-Con" hacker convention in Las Vegas about a program, offered for sale by his employer Elcomsoft, which cracks the encryption in Adobe's e-book software. Interest in Sklyarov is high because his case raises many of the most controversial issues in relation to how the law will apply to new technologies. Sklyarov was in Russia when he cracked the Adobe program, and the question of whether or not his actions were illegal under Russian law is properly an issue for Russia's courts. But his case also raises issues of free speech and copyright
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/com...0827/comp2.htm

Dimitri Sklyarov's presentation in the DEF CON Nine meeting (he was arrested soon after it) has been made available in videotape and a detailed transcript of it for those interested is to be found here.

- tg