SOURCE.The July 16 arrest of Russian hacker A person who writes programs in assembly language or in system-level languages, such as C. The term often refers to any programmer, but its true meaning is someone with a strong technical background who is "hacking away" at the bits and bytes. Dmitri Sklyarov outraged opponents of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly , the law that punishes not only thieves but people who circumvent copy protection schemes for any reason--research, innovation, or simple curiosity. Sklyarov violated the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) A U.S. law enacted in late 1998 that provides penalties for developing hardware or software that overrides copy protection schemes for digital media. when he cracked the encryption code for Adobe's much-vaunted "e-book." Before he could digest his first prison breakfast, the online movement to "Free Dmitri!" was already developing. BoycottAdobe.com functions as an unofficial central command. Other sites include: FreeSklyarov.org, which catalogues the latest news; Anti-DMCA.org, which has an informative "frequently asked questions" page; EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, www.eff.org) A non-profit civil liberties organization founded in 1990 by Mitchell Kapor and John Perry Barlow. It works in the public interest to protect privacy and freedom of expression in the arenas of computers and the Internet. .org/Intellectual-property/DMCA/, the Electronic Freedom Foundation's archive on the subject; and finally, www.NoDMCA.org, which manages an e-mail discussion list on Sklyarov. |
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