Dmitri Vitalievich Skljarov

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Dmitri Skljarov (2010)

Dmitri Witaljewitsch Skljarow ( Russian Дмитрий Витальевич Скляров , scientific transliteration Dmitrij Vital'evič Skljarov ; *  December 18, 1974 ) is a Russian programmer . He gained notoriety when he was arrested in the United States of America in 2001 for an alleged violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in connection with a computer program he had created.

Skljarow was a physics student and engaged in cryptanalysis . At the same time he was an employee of the Russian software manufacturer ElcomSoft , for which he created the software The Advanced eBook Processor (AEBPR) .

On July 16, 2001, after giving a lecture on "eBook's Security - Theory and Practice" at the DEFCON conference in Las Vegas , he was arrested by the FBI as he was about to return to Moscow . He was accused of designing a product that could be used to circumvent copyright protection.

The day after his arrest, several websites and mailing lists were set up to organize protests against the measure. Many of them used the slogan "Free Dmitry" or "Free Sklyarov". The main aspect of these campaigns was that no DMCA violations were committed at DEF CON and that the DMCA is not valid in Russia. With this in mind, (according to the site operators) Skljarov was imprisoned for something that was perfectly legal under the law. Furthermore, a campaign to boycott products from Adobe was started, as this was believed to be the cause of the incidents.

On July 19, 2001, the Association of American Publishers issued a press release announcing that it would support the arrest. Adobe initially supported the arrest, but following a meeting with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a joint press release was issued on July 23, 2001 recommending his release. Unaffected by this, Adobe continued its ongoing lawsuit against ElcomSoft.

After Skljarov's arrest, he was briefly held in a regional prison in Las Vegas; then he was in Oklahoma City at the Federal Prisoner Transfer Center until August 3, 2001, when he was transferred to the federal building in San José, California .

On August 6, 2001, Skljarov was released on bail for $ 50,000 and banned from leaving Northern California. The charges against Skljarov were later dropped in exchange for testimony. He was allowed to return to Russia on December 13, 2001.

On December 18, 2002, after a two-week trial in San Jose, a jury found that ElcomSoft had inadvertently violated US law.

Skljarov is currently a lecturer at the Information Security Institute of Moscow State Technical University . He is married and has two children.

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  1. ^ Page of the Institute for Information Security
personal data
SURNAME Skljarow, Dmitri Vitalievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Скляров, Дмитрий Витальевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian programmer
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1974