The Moscow Times reports that Elcomsoft (the Russian firm whose software allowed the piracy of e-books
sold by Barnes and Noble) is now offering their products for
free via the web:
Barnes & Noble.com, the No. 1 U.S. online book store, halted the sale of electronic books after Russian company Elcomsoft began selling a program to illegally copy text.
Under pressure from Adobe Systems, which created the protective software for the e-books, Elcomsoft was compelled to discontinue the sales of its \”hacker\” program.
It is now distributing that program for free. . . \”We have published the web address from which the program can be taken for free,\” [manager Alexander] Katalov said, \”and in the future we will probably publish the cracking algorithm for eBook . . . according to current Russian judicial practice, one can\’t be tried for a web address.\” [More. . . ]
For those of you who can read Russian, here\’s a new site that outlines the current state of Russian copyright law.
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