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[dvd-discuss] Dmitry Sklyarov freed
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- Subject: [dvd-discuss] Dmitry Sklyarov freed
- From: "Robert S. Thau" <rst(at)ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:09:18 -0500 (EST)
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Seth David Schoen writes:
> Planet PDF and AP are reporting (Planet PDF has a complete press
> release) that the charges against Dmitry Sklyarov have been dropped
> and he will be allowed to return home to Russia.
Charges against Elcomsoft have not been dropped (and a condition on
the deal for Dmitry was that he testify at the trial of the company).
Shrewd move for the prosecution; they get to establish the precedent
they were after without giving DMCA opponents a poster boy...
rst