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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]
The Future Of Artificial Intelligence: The Borg?
News But unlike the Borg, characters in Dmitry can descend into chaotic behaviour. This is how characters in Dmitry will work. Lionhead's new game, code-named Dmitry, will take the concept to a whole new level in which characters understand the...
[August 30, 2002, 15:59]
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. He is not allowed to travel outside of Northern California.
[August 7, 2001, 9:13]
Understanding Any Transport Over MPLS (AToM)
White Papers Authors: Wei Luo, Carlos Pignataro, Anthony Chan, and Dmitry Bokotey This book chapter, excerpted from Cisco Press' Layer 2 VPN Architectures, begins with an overview of LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) used by pseudowire emulation over MPLS...
[May 17, 2006, 0:00]
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. Witnesses in the ElcomSoft trial have been denied visas to enter the United States, a move that...
[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]
OpenOffice Password Crack Is Open To Abuse
News Even if you have lost passwords for all your OpenOffice programs and documents, Intelore's solution can help you quicker than any similar program - OpenOffice Password Recovery supports simultaneous processing of several recovery projects with...
[April 23, 2007, 17:39]
Virus Crashes Stock Exchange Systems
News The infected computer started to generate tremendous amounts of false traffic, causing the RTS routers to overload," said Dmitry Shatsky, vice-president of the RTS, in a statement. The Russian Trading System (RTS) was forced to cease trading for an...
[February 3, 2006, 16:25]
Comcast Subscribers Unable To Email Russia
News It took me 22 hours and a dozen emails to Comcast tech support to get this information" about the wayward filter, said Dmitry Stavisky, a Comcast subscriber and software developer who uses email to communicate with clients in Moscow.
[March 3, 2004, 8:20]
Court Order Halts Adobe's InDesign Sales
News Adobe went after Dmitry Skylarov, a Russian programmer charged with violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, after he gave a presentation about technology he created to crack Adobe's e-books. Adobe Systems has been ordered to stop selling...
[December 20, 2001, 6:31]
Russians To Be Tried Under DMCA
News The case orginally targeted Elcomsoft employee Dmitry Sklyaroff, but those charges were later dropped in exchange for his testimony. A US federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against a Russian software company...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
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]
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]
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. ElcomSoft, a software company based in Russia, is charged with five...
[December 10, 2002, 10:24]
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]
Arrest Fuels Adobe Copyright Fight
News That's the lesson Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian software programmer, learned Monday when FBI agents arrested him in Las Vegas for allegedly publishing a program that removes the security protections from Adobe eBook files.
[July 19, 2001, 10:13]
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. The US government wrapped up its case in the ElcomSoft criminal trial...
[December 6, 2002, 11:56]
FBI Nabs Russian Expert At DefCon
News The bureau acknowledged Tuesday that it had arrested security researcher Dmitry Sklyarov for what it said was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The FBI took a Russian encryption expert into custody Monday at his hotel in Las...
[July 18, 2001, 9:41]
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]
