[Free-sklyarov-uk] a win for sanity! and free speech

[Ian Firla]

Agreed. But it was Elcomsoft, not Dmitry, who were distributing the
compiled source. Dmitry was the author of some thoughts, ideas, that's
all.

Just as the author of the DeCSS code has been proved to be violating no
laws, copyrights or otherwise by writing code which could be compiled and
used 'criminally'.

I maintain that this is an important judgement for Dmitry.

Regards,

Ian


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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Peter Clay wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Ian Firla wrote:
>
> > This is a Big Win! with a profound, imo, impact in Dmitry's case (not
> > least because the judgement comes from a California Appellate court):
>
> I'm not sure that it is in Dmitry's case - Elcomsoft distributed the
> program in the US in compiled form, not source - but it's certainly
> advantageous in the other DVD cases still outstanding. (2600.com is not
> allowed to even _link_ to DeCSS, IIRC)
>
> Pete
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