Copyright law is a weird thing. While the copyright holder needs to bring a case for normal infringement, the provisions of section 1201 for "trafficking" bump copyright violation to a federal crime. In other words, the feds prosecute, not Adobe. More details on this would be welcome -- it's hard to understand how the laws work when we have relatively few test cases (even for regular copyright, let alone digital). -- Greg On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:20:36AM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Really? Dmitri gets to go home? Tell that to the USAtty's office, which indicated to me yesterday they weren't inclined to drop charges. While you're at it, learn a little about criminal law.
-Declan
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:59:01AM -0700, Petro wrote:
Not really. It's a victory for Dimitri, because he gets to go home, but the DMCA is still in effect, and until there are rulings from the courts, there will still be people harassed and arrested.