FBI agents pounce on Defcon hacker

Adobe points the finger at Russian programmer...

A Russian programmer has been arrested by the FBI as he prepared to leave the Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas on charges that he wrote software which gets around US copyright law. According to Reuters, Dmity Sklyarov was arrested in his hotel room at the Alexis Park Hotel, after design software company Adobe reported him for writing a program which violates the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Adobe accuses Skylyarov of allowing people to get past copyright protection within its eBook Reader, a technology the company developed to market books in digital form. Sklyarov is currently in custody, facing up to five years in prison and a $500,000 fine. This is the first case in which the act has been tested in a criminal court, although civil cases have been previously brought under it. Reuters was told by Sklyarov's employer, Vladimir Katalov, MD of Eclomsoft, that Adobe brought the case to hide security problems in its products. Receive news direct to your PDA:
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