Adobe
Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov (note: not "Dimitry" or "Skylarov") gave a presentation at DEF CON on Sunday. I almost attended that presentation, but I went off at the last minute to take care of some other things. On my DEF CON program, it's circled as one of the things I was interested in attending.
The following day, as he was about to board a plane to return to Russia, Sklyarov was arrested in Las Vegas. He's charged with criminal violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for the program which was the subject of his DEF CON talk. This program defeats the copy protection on Adobe e-books; it appears that Adobe got the FBI involved.
Apparently Sklyarov has been transferred to prison in San Jose; I'm trying to get information on attending his court hearings.
I've created the free-sklyarov mailing list. Free Dmitry Sklyarov!
The EFF press release links to my free-sklyarov list.
