Dmitry Sklyarov on chilling effect of DMCA

Chilling quote from Sklyarov reflects on DMCA travails :

Anxiety over the DMCA

Sklyarov said many information security developers have been skittish since learning of his case, fearful that they, too, could face jail time for their work. "Nobody knows. Probably you'll do your work, and after that somebody comes for you to arrest you or something like that because the DMCA is very (broadly) written and many things can be linked with DMCA," he said.

By Seth Finkelstein | posted in dmca , quotes | on December 21, 2002 11:58 PM (Infothought permalink)

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