From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T23:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: free pdf ebook

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:16:01PM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> Yep, this was one of the scarier points. Making DRM illegal to  
> circumvent, stepping on the Fair Use doctrine, but not doing it  
> clearly. This was used to jail a Russian who allegedly broke Adobe's  
> eBook DRM scheme.

Actually, I intended to allude to that event in my previous comments,
and my understanding of that event was that it was precipitated by
cracking Adobe's DRM scheme, not by infringement of copyright.  So,
though it appears you're right about copyright being directly punishable
as a criminal act, I don't think that was an example of that.  Please
let me know if you have information to the contrary, as (being on
vacation and typing this from a hotel room) I really don't have time to
do my own Google research right now.

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