This could bring down the DMCA [LWN.net]

This could bring down the DMCA

Posted Oct 10, 2003 7:36 UTC (Fri) by rakoch (guest, #4666)
Parent article: Student faces suit over key to CD locks (News.com)

This could become the case the DMCA falls over - provided Halderman is
willing to walk all the way down into the people mill called legal system.
Which is only his decision. Noone can demand from him not to bail out,
just like Skylarov did. But unlike Skylarov he's a US citizen. Skylarov
was probably not very interested in suffering to change stupid US laws,
Halderman might...

-Rudiger

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This could bring down the DMCA

Posted Oct 10, 2003 8:47 UTC (Fri) by bastiaan (guest, #5170) [Link]

IIRC, Sklyarov did not bail out, the US prosecutor did: the charges were dropped in 'exchange for' his testimony in the case against his employer Elcomsoft. A testimony he would have given anyway and did not help the prosecutor one bit....

Bastiaan