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Free Dmitry Sklyarov

UPDATE, 14 December, 2001: Freed Dmitry Sklyarov will be Home for the Holidays!
New legal agreement offers near-acquittal, freedom to leave the U.S. 
See also the pretrial diversion agreement.

Jailed in the USA for exposing the childishly simple encryption used on a e-book reader made by the Adobe Corporation.

July 2001

US Government refuses to drop controversial charges against Dmitry Sklyarov and indictes Russian programmer August 28, 2001
BBC News, Programmer denies copyright violations 31 August, 2001

Dmitry Sklyarov

Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian cryptographer. In order to expose the childishly simple encryption used on a e-book reader made by the Adobe Corporation (not much more difficult than pig latin), he wrote a program used to decrypt e-books encrypted with Adobe's program. A company he works for then sold it over the Internet. All this programming was done in Russia, where the DMCA does not apply. Mr. Sklyarov then came to the U.S., to discuss his work at a convention in Las Vegas. Adobe, aware he would be coming to the U.S., ordered the FBI to arrest him. He is now being held in an undisclosed location, awaiting arraignment.

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Photo taken of the protest against the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov at Adobe Headquarters in San Jose, California, July 23, 2001. Click on the photo for more photos.

 Russian Programmer to Appear in California Court: Dmitry Sklyarov Issues Statement Thanking Supporters August 21, 2001
Dmitry Skylarov issued the following statement thanking the activists who have taken up his cause: To everyone who spent their time helping me: During the three weeks I spent in jail I learned that many people were protesting against my arrest. I also learned that Adobe withdrew its support of my arrest after meeting with EFF. But I was not able to see that or to read letters and articles about my case. After being released from jail on August 6, I was really surprised and impressed by the scale of the action and the number of people involved in the protests. I'm not an IT superman. I'm just a programmer, like many others. It was unexpected by me that so many people would support a guy from another country that nobody heard about before.  Your support means a lot to me and my family and makes a difference for all. This experience is going to change me in a profound way that I cannot even appreciate fully as yet. Thank you very much. Dmitry Sklyarov 

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