[wplug] DMCA protest meeting - 2001/08/06.

Bryce Lynch bryce at telerama.lm.com
Mon Aug 6 19:03:39 EDT 2001


On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, coldfire wrote:

> i'm pretty sure it has to do with reverse engineering adobe's ebooks
> software and then releasing his own code which demonstrated his findings.

He did not release his code, but Elcomsoft (the company which employs him)
sells the software (which is legal in Russia).  The fact that the same
software is available in the United States (via the Net) and that it is
illegal here is the problem at hand.

> some bullshit in the DMCA i think.

Bingo.

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