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June 11, 2002
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När Edward Felten påbörjade sin presentation i San Francisco, om svagheterna i kopierings-skydds program, så kom han inte långt. När han var färdig med sin första overhead-bild, kom två stycken FBI agenter som stormade upp på scenen och satte handklovar på den chockade professorn. De arresterade honom som Dmitry Sklyarov, en rysk programmerare som hade varit på Las Vegas hackers konferens i Juli 2001.
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August 22, 2001
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Om man läser artikeln så står det:
The mock arrest was the opening act of a panel at the 2002 Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, a favourite get-together for tech-savvy civil libertarians, to illustrate the chilling effects of America's latest copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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Yet Dr Felten could well have had himself arrested—if he were less cautious. In January 2001, the record industry threatened to sue him when he and several colleagues wanted to talk publicly about how they had broken a copy-protection system.
dvs. det hela var arrangerat.
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