[iwar] DMCA vs the 'hacking' community

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Subject: [iwar] DMCA vs the 'hacking' community
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Hackers plan to bite back as FBI detains Russian: Copyright crackdown
provokes worldwide protests

Stuart Millar, The Guardian, 7/30/2001
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,528767,00.html 
Dmitry Sklyarov is an unlikely cause cilhbre, but the Russian computing
student has found himself caught up in a worldwide wave of protests
against the power of big business. The quiet, unassuming postgraduate
student's name will be chanted and his image paraded during street
protests planned for cities across the US and much of Europe this week.

The reason? For two weeks, the 26-year-old Russian has been languishing
in a Nevada jail after the FBI arrested him under controversial
copyright laws while he was attending a hackers' convention in Las
Vegas.

With international condemnation of his treatment intensifying, the US
authorities may rue the decision to make an example of Dmitry Sklyarov,
who is also a part-time programmer for a software company in Moscow.

Campaigners say his case reveals the increasingly unhealthy power that
big business holds over the federal law makers. Mr Sklyarov was detained
after Adobe, one of the world's biggest software companies, complained
that he had created a program which circumvented the copyright
protection on one of its products.

Although he is a foreign national who has not breached any law in his
own country, Mr Sklyarov faces being the first person to be prosecuted
under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The law, passed three years
ago by congress in the face of massive opposition from freedom of
information and free speech campaigners, makes it a criminal offence to
create a technology that undermines copyright protection mechanisms on
products ranging from software to CDs.

If convicted, Mr Sklyarov, who has been denied bail, faces five years in
prison and a $500,000 fine.
...

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