Free Dmitry Sklyarov
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US ATTY MEETING CONCLUDES Representatives of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) met
with representatives of the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco
today. There was a productive dialog, however the U.S. Attorney's
office gave no indication of dropping the prosecution against Dmitry
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New to this issue? Wondering why so many people are so upset?
He helped create the Advanced eBook Processor (AEBPR)
software for his Russian employer Elcomsoft.
According to the company's website, the software permits eBook owners
to translate from Adobe's secure eBook format into the more common
Portable Document Format (PDF). The software only works on legitimately
purchased eBooks and has been used by blind people to read otherwise-inaccessible
PDF user's manuals, and by people who want to move an eBook from
one computer to another (just like anyone can move a music CD from
the home player to a portable or car). Sklyarov was arrested July 17 in Las Vegas, NV, apparently at the behest of Adobe Systems, according to the DOJ complaint. He was charged with distributing a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures. He is being held without bail in a Las Vegas jail.
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"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The EFF is asking people who are members of organizations that
are part of the Association
of American Publishers to ask them to question AAP's public
support of the DMCA. CONNECT
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Siva Vaidhyanathan Putting a lock on e-Books: A New Cold War Looms Over Your Right to Read John Gilmore Richard Stallman Brad Templeton US Rep. Rick Boucher
(D-VA) Negativland Tim Neu Richard Forno Comprehensive coverage
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For comprehensive coverage, go to: Coverage of 7/23 protests in Wired Dmitry cartoon @ geekculture.com Interview
with Dmitry taped July 18 by Las Vegas News 13 at the North Las
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Dmitry
Sklyarov is a 26-year-old Russian citizen and Ph.D. student who
studies cryptography. 
This site is not sponsored by, or acting as a shill for, any commercial entity. It is the product of shallow pockets and a wirespread sense of outrage and concern. We hope that through the broad dissemination of information, we can help correct the fantastically misguided actions of the FBI (arrest of Dmitry), Adobe Systems (crummy encryption and summoning of the criminal justice system to settle a business problem) and US Congress (DMCA), each in turn.