Its strange first they let him arrested and now they want hem to be released from prison is it just me or.....???
After meeting for 4 hours with a free-speech group Monday afternoon, e-book publisher Adobe Systems agreed to withdraw its complaint against a Russian computer programmer who was arrested last week for creating a program that cracks the security lock on Adobe's Acrobat eBook Reader. Programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, an encryption expert, was arrested after speaking at a hackers conference in Las Vegas and is being held without bail. |
Adobe had complained that the program lets people copy its e-books illegally. Sklyarov wrote the program for Russian company Elcomsoft.
Adobe and the Electronic Frontier Foundation asked that Sklyarov be released, but it is unclear whether the government will drop the charges. ''It's a criminal case filed by the United States,'' said Matt Jacobs, an assistant U.S. attorney.
The case is one of the first prosecutions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Sklyarov faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $500,000.
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Source: Antionline
