[Reader-list] Adobe calls for programmer's release

[Raju Mathur]

Adobe calls for programmer's release
By Brian Bergstein

July 24, 2001 | SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- 

Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. joined with some of its sharpest
critics Monday in calling for the release of a Russian computer
programmer who was arrested last week and charged with circumventing
an Adobe program for electronic books.

Adobe said it had decided the prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov was not
the best way to enforce the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a 1998
law aimed at protecting the legal rights of publishers of online
content. It was not immediately clear whether federal prosecutors
would drop the case.

Full story at:
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/07/24/adobe/index.html

Coverage of Sklyarov's arrest and related stories at:
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/media.html

Regards,

-- Raju
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