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Russian programmer out on bail
News Three weeks after his arrest, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is out on bail. Dmitry Sklyarov was ordered to post $50,000 (about £32,500) bail Monday in San Jose Federal Court. Sklyarov was detained in July at the DefCON convention in Las Vegas...
[August 7, 2001, 9:13]
Dmitry lawyers push for plea bargain
News Russian computer programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is due to be indicted on Thursday for circumventing the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), but the prosecution and defence lawyers have revealed plans to negotiate a possible plea bargain.
[August 23, 2001, 12:45]
Dmitry employer on copyright crusade
News Katalov's saga started last summer, when Russian programmer and ElcomSoft employee Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested during a Las Vegas security convention after giving a speech about the company's new Advanced eBook Processor software.
[April 30, 2002, 9:47]
Visa roadblock could delay DMCA case
News ElcomSoft programmer Dmitry Sklyarov and chief executive Alex Katalov, both Russian residents, are scheduled to appear in court as early as next Monday. The case first gained attention in the summer of 2001, when Sklyarov was arrested at a Las...
[October 17, 2002, 7:47]
London protesters slam US copyright laws
News Protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in London this afternoon to call for the immediate release of Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer who was arrested by the FBI for creating software that circumvented the copyright protection mechanism...
[August 3, 2001, 17:14]
Protesters declare war on copyright law
News Supporters backing Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer accused of five counts of copyright infringement, declared war on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at a fund-raiser for Sklyarov's legal defence on Wednesday.
[August 31, 2001, 10:08]
IT workers aren't the Net police
News It looks like the now-infamous case of until recently jailed Russian software developer Dmitry Sklyarov was just the beginning of a broader trend to cast IT professionals in the role of info cop. Software developers like Sklyarov and even help desk...
[August 21, 2001, 11:31]
ElcomSoft: software could be used for 'bad purposes'
News Instead of calling ElcomSoft programmer Dmitry Sklyarov to the stand in the courtroom, US government prosecutors played an hour-long video of the programmer's earlier deposition. Defence lawyers, after unsuccessfully trying to quash the video, said...
[December 6, 2002, 11:56]
Law enforcement on a borderless Web
News In another case, Russian software programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was jailed after entering the United States last year. Charges against Sklyarov were dropped in exchange for his testimony in the pending suit against his employer.
[June 2, 2002, 7:31]
Researchers weigh publication, prosecution
News The most high-profile DMCA case so far is that of Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer arrested last month on criminal charges that he created a program that can be used to crack Adobe Systems' e-books.
[August 16, 2001, 9:20]
DMCA case verdict: Not guilty
News The case was launched in July 2001, when ElcomSoft employee Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested during the Las Vegas Defcon hackers conference after giving a speech about his company's software, which is designed to crack protections on Adobe Systems...
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
Adobe: Few eBook copies found
News It's also looking unlikely that Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov will testify for the government. Sklyarov, an ElcomSoft employee, was arrested and jailed in Las Vegas last year after giving a speech about the company's software.
[December 5, 2002, 11:27]
New US law aims to be stricter than DMCA
News That's exactly the same sentence Dmitry Sklyarov is facing. The US government has brought five charges against Sklyarov, which could lead to up to 25 years in jail. Moreover, people who make "available to the public" a copyrighted work that has had...
[September 11, 2001, 14:05]
Sklyarov reflects on DMCA case
News Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov thinks it was unfair of prosecutors to play his videotaped deposition at the ElcomSoft trial rather than calling him to the stand. But after a legal saga that's included a surprise arrest outside his Las Vegas...
[December 20, 2002, 13:24]
Sklyarov takes the stand in DMCA trial
News The long-awaited live testimony of Dmitry Sklyarov finally got underway in the ElcomSoft trial on Monday afternoon, when the Russian programmer took the stand for the defence. During his presentation on flaws in eBook security at the DefCon...
[December 10, 2002, 10:24]
Yahoo! News hacked, content altered
News The changes, which have since been removed, were made to a 23 August Reuters story about the Russian software programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who stands accused of violating US copyright law. Online news took a hit this week with Yahoo!
[September 21, 2001, 9:10]
Copyright act gags programmers
News Along with the threatened lawsuit of Princeton computer-science professor Edward Felten, and the arrest of Russian encryption expert Dmitry Sklyarov, the incidents are the latest to point at what is quickly becoming a touchy environment for...
[September 7, 2001, 9:04]
US Congress asked to unpick copy lock laws
News After Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer visiting the United States, was arrested in August 2001 on charges of violating the DMCA, Boucher called the prosecution "a broad overreach". After Sklyarov was arrested last year, representative Howard...
[October 4, 2002, 7:51]
US Copyright Office wakes up to flaws in anti-hacking law
News It was the trigger for the FBI's arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer who had helped create technology that could crack Adobe Systems' e-book protections. Federal copyright regulators are opening the door for new exceptions to a...
[October 14, 2002, 10:13]
Open-source advocate attacks patent laws
News The DMCA has been invoked to stifle Princeton professor Edward Felten's discussion of weaknesses in the copy-protection scheme of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) and the prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov for his work in...
[August 30, 2001, 8:46]
