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From Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico@neural.it>
Date Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:41:57 +0100
Subject Re: [HaCkmEeTiNg] Che fine ha fatto Dmitry Sklyarov? 

>L'Hacker che Ë stato sbattuto in galera solo per aver
>annunciato di aver decifrato un algoritmo della Adobe
>doveva avere un udienza il 26 Novembre ma no trovo
>notizie su cosa sia successo in Rete.
>
>Sapete qualcosa in pi˜?


http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7983072.html?tag=mn_hd

Russian programmer gets April court date
By Reuters
November 26, 2001, 2:25 p.m. PT

A federal judge in California on Monday set a hearing for April 15 to 
schedule a trial date for a Russian software programmer charged with 
violating a new U.S. copyright law.

Dmitry Sklyarov, who turns 27 on Dec. 18, probably won't face trial 
until June or later, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph 
Sullivan.

The trial schedule was pushed back by U.S. District Court Judge 
Ronald Whyte in San Jose, Calif., to allow time for defense attorneys 
to have evidence translated from Russian into English, Sullivan said. 
In the meantime, hearings were set for April 1 and March 4 for 
attorneys to discuss motions in the case.

Sklyarov and his Moscow-based employer, ElcomSoft, face charges of 
selling and conspiring to sell technology designed to circumvent the 
U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans the sale of 
technology that allows people to thwart copyright protections in 
computer and electronic programs.

Sklyarov is the first person to be prosecuted under the controversial 
law, which took effect last year. The case has prompted Russia to 
warn its computer experts about visiting the United States.

Free-speech advocates oppose the law, saying it is too broad and 
impedes software development, while many U.S. businesses favor such 
extensions of copyright protections in cyberspace.

Sklyarov, who pleaded not guilty in August, wrote a program that 
allows people using Adobe Systems eBook Reader software to copy and 
print digital books, transfer them to other computers, and have the 
computer read them aloud.

He was arrested in July after giving a presentation on his software 
at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas and then released 21 
days later on $50,000 bail.


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