Another effect will be companies that wish to take advantage of the criminal sections of the DMCA will be more likely to cover their tracks when dealing with the Feds. The next Adobe won't be so quick to admit they contacted the FBI, for instance. Or, pace Blacknet, the next company that wants to use DMCA against a hacker will target the organizers of the protests and blackmail them anonymously. :) -Declan On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:41:11PM -0500, Jon Beets wrote:
Sounds to me like Adobe doesn't really like the bad press. When will these companies understand that all this is going to do is cause the programmers to write even more adobe cracking programs and make them available all over the net. They cannot stop it....
Jon Beets Pacer Communications
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Young" <jya@pipeline.com> To: <cypherpunks@lne.com> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:44 PM Subject: Adobe, EFF Call for Dmitry Release
From a press release today:
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Adobe Systems Incorporated and the Electronic Frontier Foundation today jointly recommend the release of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov from federal custody.
Adobe is also withdrawing its support for the criminal complaint against Dmitry Sklyarov.
"We strongly support the DMCA and the enforcement of copyright protection of digital content," said Colleen Pouliot, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Adobe. "However, the prosecution of this individual in this particular case is not conducive to the best interests of any of the parties involved or the industry. ElcomSoft's Advanced eBook Processor software is no longer available in the United States, and from that perspective the DMCA worked. Adobe will continue to protect its copyright interests and those of its customers."
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