ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty

truthsearch writes "From News.com: 'A jury on Tuesday found a Russian software company not guilty of criminal copyright charges for producing a program that can crack anti-piracy protections on electronic books.' HUGE legal win against the DMCA. Thank you Lawrence Lessig."

Thank goodness!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I can go back to cracking.

Now I can finally rest easy at night...

[Mirkon]

...knowing that the DMCA's attempts to stifle software innovation have been conquered.

I'm still worried about the whole idea that the law applies in Russia, though...

DAMN!

[wiredog]

How the hell can we get the law tossed by the courts if we win at trial?

A joke

[Raul654]

I know it's bad form to reply to your own comment, but I just thought of something that IMHO is funny and hell and I have karma to burn.

It kind of reminds me of that Chris rock joke -- Following OJ's aquital:
Black people are like 'Yeah, we won!' What the fuck did we win? Every day I look in my mailbox for my O.J. prize - nothin'."

oh great!

[Quasar1999]

And in other news, DMCA2 is now being drafted... sounds like they're pluggin the legal holes... and what's this paragraph about? 'We the RIAA and MPAA reserve the right to f*$@ you up the...'...

Oh my...

Fair use restored, dancing in the streets reported

[nagora]

Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said.

Well, that clears DeCSS up, then!

If only it were that simple, eh?

TWW

MY GOD! A Judge with a CLUE

[Newer Guy]

"After much wrangling among attorneys over the definition of the word "willful," the judge told jurors that in order to find the company guilty, they must agree that company representatives knew their actions were illegal and intended to violate the law. Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said. That thud you heard was me fainting!

Re:Ok, someone fill me in

[nomadic]

IANAL, but I do watch Law and Order reruns a lot.

I would think that this would set precedent so that other defense attorneys will be able to strengthen their cases by citing this.

Of course I'm usually distracted by Carey Lowell or Jill Hennessy or Angie Harmon, but sometimes stuff seeps in to my lust-addled brain...

Re:DECSS

[Neon Spiral Injector]

So I can finally safely comment on your signature. :)

echo sfsdfsdfDsdfsdfsdfdsfMsdfsdfdsCsfdslkfdsfAdfgdfg | sed -e s/[a-z]//g

Re:Ha!

[bobdotorg]

In Soviet Russia, ElcomSoft sues you!


In Soviet Russia, "In Soviet Russia" posts get modded down.

Re:Ok, someone fill me in

[Amazing Quantum Man]

What exactly did we win?

A Free Dmitri?

Thank you! I'll be here till Thursday!

Re:so now...

[Scaba]

Wow, that sucks. Why doesn't he sue the crap out of the girl and her parents?

I think beating the crap out of them will result in a more immediate and desirable outcome.

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Re:Vengeful or Not, it would be appropriate

[passion]

The best way of enacting vengence that Skylarov could do would be to use the fame and notoriety of his experience to write a book, make lots of money, and take his book tour (get laid a lot) - maybe even make a movie someday...

That could be ironic, then we could get the MPAA fighting against people who want to crack the encrypted copy-protected scheme to watch a movie about cracking an encrypted copy-protected scheme.