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Top: Society: Issues: Intellectual_Property: Copyrights: Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act: USA_v._ElcomSoft_and_Dmitry_Sklyarov
Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian programmer for Elcom. Elcom sells AEBPR (Adobe eBook Processor), a tool to remove restrictions from encrypted PDF files that prevent users from making fair uses, such as reading text with a speechreader, or printing. Sklyarov came to the United States to give a presentation at DefCon, a compunter security conference, about weaknesses in Adobe's PDF encryption.
At Adobe's behest, the FBI arrested him for violating the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). After protests and public outcry, Adobe publically recommended Skylarov's release.
On 13 December 2001, the charges against Dmitri Sklyarov were dropped, with the condition that he return to testify in the criminal prosecution of his employer, Elcomsoft.
News coverage of the arrest and trial of Dmitry Sklyarov and of the backlash against Adobe for initiating it.
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