Intellectual Property
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- LA Times: E-Book Saga Is Full of Woe --and a Bit of Intrigue
- "Richard DeGrandpre wrote 'Digitopia' as a warning about the false promises of the wired world. Then it was published as an electronic book, and all his predictions came true." By David Strietfeld. (August 06, 2001)
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- Register: Free Sklyarov Now
- "Protests against the continued incarceration of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov are planned outside the courtroom where he faces a bail hearing today." By John Leyden. (August 06, 2001)
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- Register: Adobe DMCA Protests Spread to UK
- "Protests against the arrest of jailed Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have spread oversees. The US Embassy lobby in London will be the focus of a demonstration this coming Friday August 3." By Andrew Orlowski. (July 31, 2001)
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- Register: Adobe Folds!
- "PR terror does the job, but will DoJ stand down?" By Thomas C. Greene. (July 24, 2001)
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- LinuxPlanet: The Digital Millennium Rape Act - What to Expect
- Dennis E. Powell argues that controlling the means by which a crime can be committed is never the right answer to ensuring lawful behavior in a citizenry, and says the parallel example of gun control bears him out. (July 23, 2001)
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- Register: Protesters Lay Siege to Adobe
- "Angry computer users laid siege to Adobe's San Jose HQ this morning, in one of several rallies around the United States in protest at the arrest of Russian cryptographer Dmitry Sklyarov." By Andrew Orlowski. (July 23, 2001)
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- Register: Boycott Adobe campaign launches
- "Protesters, angry about the arrest of a Russian programmer who made a speech the shortcomings of encryption methods used by Adobe, have set up a site calling for a boycott of the software firm." By John Leyden. (July 19, 2001)
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- Register: eBook Security Debunker Arrested by Feds
- "A Russian security expert has been arrested after making a presentation at Defcon pointing out the shortcomings of eBook security." (July 17, 2001)
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- BBC News - Legal Victory for 'DVD Hacker'
- An appeals court clears a Norwegian man of DVD piracy charges brought against him by the US movie industry. (December 22, 2003)
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- SecurityFocus - DeCSS Creator Indicted in Norway
- Norwegian prosecutors have indicted Jon Johansen for his role in creating the DeCSS program that unlocked a DVD copy protection system and unleashed a series of lawsuits by the motion picture industry. (January 10, 2002)
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- World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number
- "Mathematician Phil Carmody, who in March of this year managed to encode the DeCSS source in a prime number, has upped the ante by producing a prime number which represents an executable version of the banned CSS descrambler." By Thomas C. Greene. [Register] (September 11, 2001)