[FYI] (Fwd) [DMCA] Ebook reverse-engineer arrested

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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From:           	Seth Finkelstein <sethf@MIT.EDU>
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[Personal note: To those members of this list who have derided my
oft-expressed fears of prosecution for anticensorware work (you know
who you are), there ARE severe and real legal risks. Here's another
case of a programmer facing charges.]

Slashdot story: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/130226

Base information:
http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=165

   Planet eBook
   eBook Day at Seybold Seminars - San Francisco 2001, September 27,
   2001 FBI Reportedly Detains ElcomSoft Employee in U.S. Author of
   Advanced EBook Processor Software not on flight home

   16 July 2001

   Dmitry Sklyarov, an employee of ElcomSoft, Ltd. of Moscow, Russia
   and author of the "Advanced eBook Processor" software program that
   Adobe Systems has alleged is in violation of Sec. 1210 of U. S.
   Copyright Law, was reportedly detained today as he was attempting
   to return home after making a presentation at the DefCon 9
   Conference in Las Vegas over the weekend.

   Vladimir Katalov, Managing Director of Elcom Ltd., told Planet PDF
   and Planet eBook today that efforts to get any information about
   Sklyarov's situation have been unsuccessful for most of the day,
   other than a confirmation from the Russian Consulate that Sklyarov
   was not on board the scheduled flight to Moscow.

   Editor's Note: (17 July 2001 0100 PDST) Vladimir Katalov has
   informed Planet eBook that Dmitry Sklyarov, author of the Advanced
   eBook Processor, was in fact arrested, and that he is being held in
   a Las Vegas prison waiting for subsequent judgement in California.
   The reason for the arrest has been cited as being the Advanced
   eBook Processor and his speech at DefCon 9. According to Vladimir,
   Dmitry's wife in Moscow received this information via an
   interpreter and has not yet been able to talk to her husband.

   Further details to follow.

   Full Planet eBook & Planet PDF Coverage

     * DEF CON 9 'HackerFest' includes talk on eBook security, July
     11,
       2001
     * Moscow Times covers PDF decryption -- in PDF, July 09, 2001 *
     ElcomSoft refutes Adobe's charges of copyright infringement, July
       03, 2001
     * Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader updated after security issue, June
     28,
       2001


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