Elcomsoft\’s Dmitri Sklyarov was arrested by U.S. federal agents in Las Vegas after his presentation at Defcon:
Dmitry Sklyarov, of Russian software company ElcomSoft, and author of Advanced eBook Processor, which removes restrictions on reading and printing from encrypted PDF files, was arrested for alleged violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. According to an item on ElcomSoft\’s site, Sklyarov is being held a Las Vegas prison pending judgement on a motion filled by Adobe in California. Adobe has objected to the publication of the software and a presentation, entitled \”eBook Security: Theory and Practice\”, that Sklyarov made at Defcon, the annual hacker\’s convention in Las Vegas.
[More from The Register. See \”Russian E-Book Pirates Still Afloat\” for even more on Elcomsoft.]
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