Adobe fallout ?

[Owen Blacker]

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The latest edition of EFFector (v14.15) has a lot about this too.  To quote
from the email:

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I can forward it, if anyone has pticlr problems getting it.

It seems that Adobe's lawyers are being a little over-eager in using the
DMCA  *shocker*   :o(


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nexus [mailto:nexus@patrol.i-way.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 8:05 PM
> To: UK Crypto list
> Subject: Adobe fallout ?
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
>     Though not pertaining to UK law per se, perhaps a somewhat dangerous
> precedent being set for non US citizens visiting their country ?   Or
> kneejerk reaction ?
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20575.html
> Andrew Orlowski andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk
> 
> Angry users were getting ready to lay siege to Adobe's San Jose HQ this
> morning, one of several rallies around the United States in protest at
> the arrest of Russian cryptographer Dmitry Skylarov.
> 
> Skylarov demonstrated the feeble 'security' in Adobe's eBook file format
> at DefCon in Las Vegas last week, and found himself arrested under the US
> DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act). Skylarov's employer develops a
> version that circumvents the encryption on Adobe eBooks for the benefit
> of partially sighted computers, but only works on paid-for eBooks. So
> it's difficult to see what Adobe is losing here, except for its ability
> to rob the blind.
> Literally.
> 
> Linux kernel developer Alan Cox resigned his Usenix post at the weekend,
> urging non-US companies to boycott events in the land of the free until
> the draconian DMCA is repealed.
> 
> [snip]

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