Re:So? (Score 2)

this discussion seems to be getting off topic, katz posted the original thread declaring the first amendment infriction that a man charged by the DMCA should not be kept in jail, "while lawyers get to slug out what ought clearly to be a civil, not a criminal, issue. "
and closes hinting that if the current Skylarov trend continues, the internet may become a very censored place

"They will have permanently altered the First Amendment and the protection it has always accorded free, controversial and offensive speech. And the Net will become a very different kind of place, not only for coders and hackers but for any person who loves the unique freedom it has offered for nearly a generation. "

too much of these threads argue the morality of reverse engineering, whereas i am not sure if that is what he was even charged for: and definitely not the purpose of the thread

basicly:
what is he being charged for exactly...

and how DOES reverse engineering adobe put someone in jail, while reverse engineering every version of doze98 that has been cracked hasn't landed everyone else in jail?

(and doesn't it seem nutz that the russian government isn't involved yet?)

"pink ones for everyone involved" -KP