Drop that E-Book or I'll Shoot!

Drop that E-Book or I'll Shoot!
Mark Rasch, 2002-12-09

With the first ever criminal DMCA trial halfway over, it's already raising novel legal, jurisdictional and ethical challenges.

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Remember Bhopal? 2002-12-09
TL (1 replies)

So when will Ashcroft deport the ex-Union Carbide directors to India to face charges for gross negligence and involuntary manslaughter?...

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Remember Bhopal? 2002-12-09
Anonymous (1 replies)

TL,

To be accurate with the analogy to the Skylarov and Elecom situation, it would like the government of India having enought clout to demand the appearance of Union Carbide execs in an Indian court after having arrested a UC engineer visiting India. But then India is anot the world's solitary ...

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Remember Bhopal? 2002-12-17
Anonymous

Not yet, but with a higher population than China, and a strong drive to succeed, I'd suggest you'll be wanting to stay best buddies with India in the future...

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much atalk about something 2002-12-10
bl0rf

This is a very nice article but there are dozens of
similar articles in circulation. To fight the DMCA
and other unpleasant legal hiccups the public should
just boycott Adobe for a while ( personally I rather
boycott the big music labels...) and see just how
well they stand up to large monetary...

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Drop that E-Book or I'll Shoot! 2002-12-11
Anonymous

This is an easy problem to fix. If consumers do not buy these idiotically protected products, the companies will either go out of business, never try to use the draconian measure to "protect" their work (by the way companies do have valid concerns), or work to get this law revised.

On E-Book: If...

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Drop that E-Book or I'll Shoot! 2002-12-11
Wayne (1 replies)

Wouldn't carnivore also be covered? Assuming your email was copyrighted (normally is) and password protected (normally is).

And isn't there a law passed in 2000 that prohibites the FBI from using unethical/illegal methods to collect data....

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Drop that E-Book or I'll Shoot! 2002-12-13
Mark D. Rasch

Both the DMCA and the federal computer crime law exempt "lawful" law enforcement or intelligence activities...

MDR...

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Drop that E-Book or I'll Shoot! 2002-12-17
Anonymous

The software was posted on a US-based server (better bandwidth) and priced in USD (no currency conversion issues). A not entirely nebulous indication of intent.

And it -- the software -- is still out there on the web. As are books that have been processed by it. Themselves illegally posted.

Sh...

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Drop that E-Book or I'll Shoot! 2002-12-17
Mel

Skylarov was present in the Court Room and available to testify but the prosecution was allowed to play his (edited) video taped testimony instead thus denying the defence an opportunity to cross-examine?

Wouldn't that be a clear violation of the 6th Ammendment?

"the accused shall enjoy the r...

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