[Free-sklyarov-uk] Flyer

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Dan Ackroyd wrote:

>
> So in summing, the FBI decided to arrest Dmitry before he even reached
> America and gave his speech, as they thought he had broken a US law in, er,
> Russia.

Exactly, and just to make it completely clear, Dmitry's alleged crime was
nothing to do with speaking at the conference, but was that he wrote
[assisted in writing] a piece of software that circumvented a copyright
protection measure, and then offered this piece of software for sale in
the USA.

In fact, he merely helped to write the software, and it was the company
that he worked for that sold it in the USA, so it's hard to see how he
could be construed as having committed the crime of trafficking in a
circumvention mechanism.

This is what we mean we say he has 'committed no crime'.

Julian


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