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FC: Adobe bows to pressure, recommends release of Russian hacker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Tue Jul 24 13:50:48 2001
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:54:50 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Release the Russian, Adobe Says
By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
4:33 p.m. July 23, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- In a stunning turn of events, Adobe abruptly bowed to
public outcry and recommended the release of a Russian programmer who
was arrested for writing code-breaking software.
Late Monday, Adobe officials said they had changed their minds and no
longer believed that Dmitry Sklyarov should be prosecuted for alleged
copyright infringement.
"We strongly support (federal copyright law) and the enforcement of
copyright protection of digital content," Colleen Pouliot, general
counsel for Adobe, said in a statement. "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."
Adobe's announcement came as hundreds of geeks-turned-activists
protested Sklyarov's arrest in at least 10 cities, with about 100
marchers descending on the company's San Jose headquarters, and
representatives of the Electronic Frontier Foundation met with Adobe
officials to try and broker a deal.
[...]
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