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...legitimate purposes." The developing legal framework discourages such research by failing to distinguish well between legitimate and illegitimate exploitation. But when programmers intentionally infringe copyright, especially for commercial reasons, Felten says, "sympathy [among computer scientists] evaporates." One example may be the case of Russian Dmitry Sklyarov and his employer, ElcomSoft, the first criminal prosecution under the DCMA. WIPO director-general Kamil Idris says intellectual property can "turn creativity and inventiveness into social, cultural and economic wealth." But for whom? "Some people think copyright is the absolute right to control whatever intellectual property you've created - or in the case...
...reason for his arrest, say federal investigators, was in the suitcase he was carrying. Not bombs or secret government documents, but software to make other kinds of documents--electronic books--less than secret. Working for Moscow-based ElcomSoft while finishing his Ph.D., Sklyarov had used his head and hands to write code that cracks the security on an e-book reader sold by software giant Adobe. What Sklyarov did is perfectly legal in the rest of the world, and it was legal here until last year. "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Sklyarov told TIME...
...free and easy to copy as digital music was with Napster. And there is some justification for this. Consider companies like FileOpen Systems, a tiny New York firm that sells extra e-book security for scientific journals and financial newsletters--small publishers that really need paying customers. Last year ElcomSoft produced a piece of software that cracked FileOpen's code--potentially driving it out of business. CEO Sanford Bingham spent hours on the phone to Moscow in vain. "If they were doing this with credit cards, nobody would have any qualms about seeing this guy in jail," he says. "Ultimately...
...free and easy to copy as digital music was with Napster. And there is some justification for this. Consider companies like FileOpen Systems, a tiny New York firm that sells extra e-book security for scientific journals and financial newsletters--small publishers that really need paying customers. Last year ElcomSoft produced a piece of software that cracked FileOpen's code--potentially driving it out of business. CEO Sanford Bingham spent hours on the phone to Moscow in vain. "If they were doing this with credit cards, nobody would have any qualms about seeing this guy in jail," he says. "Ultimately...
...Jose headquarters and a vigorous "boycott Adobe" campaign, the company released a statement that said prosecuting Sklyarov was "not in the best interests" of the industry. Now Adobe says it did not ask the feds to arrest Sklyarov in the first place, but made a more general complaint against ElcomSoft. The U.S. Attorney's office will not comment on Adobe's role. Sklyarov's attorney believes the company has the outcome it wanted all along: to send a signal to ElcomSoft but end the protests...