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Skylarov, Dmitry Case - technical definition
(legal case)
At the DefCon
9 hacking gathering in Las Vegas in July 2001, Russian Dmitry Sklyarov was
arrested about the time he was to give his talk to the hacker crowd. Sklyarov
developed a software program sold by his Russian employer ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. to permit users to
download e-books from secure Adobe software to more commonly used PDF computer files. He, and later his
company, were charged with violating provisions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
in the United States. Both Skylarov and his company were eventually cleared of
any wrongdoing because of jurisdictional issues.
See Also: Copyright Laws; DefCon, Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA); Elcomsoft Co. Ltd.; Portable Document Format (PDF).
Schell, B.H., Dodge, J.L., with S.S. Moutsatsos. The
Hacking of America: WhoÂ’s Doing It, Why, and How. Westport, CT: Quorum
Books, 2002.