News and Media

1. LA Times: E-Book Saga Is Full of Woe --and a Bit of Intrigue  (site info) "Richard DeGrandpre wrote 'Digitopia' as a warning about the false promises of the wired world. Then it was published as an electronic book, and all his predictions came true." By David Strietfeld. http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettim... 2. BusinessWeek: Don't Judge an eBook Case By Its Coverage  (site info) "A programmer's arrest for allegedly violating copyright law has riled civil libertarians. They may have an unworthy martyr." By Alex Salkever. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul200... 3. Byte: Dmitry Sklyarov, Adobe, and the FBI  (site info) "I predict that if the case ever comes to trial the law will be thrown out, either on Constitutional grounds or on the narrower principle that it is too hopelessly vague to be enforceable." By Jerry Pournelle. http://www.byte.com/documents/s=857/byt20010816s00... 4. CBC: Russian Programmer Out on Bail  (site info) "A computer programmer arrested for allegedly breaking an American copyright protection law has been released on bail." http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?category=... 5. EFF: Adobe & EFF Urge Release of Dmitry Sklyarov  (site info) Joint press release from Adobe/EFF. Adobe Systems Inc. & the Electronic Frontier Foundation jointly recommend the release of Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer wrongfully arrested July 15 on DMCA anticircumvention provision charges. http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/20010723_... 1-5 of 81. Next »