At 01:24 -0700 2001.08.30, Dmitry Kohmanyuk
=?KOI8-R?B?5M3J1NLJyiDrz8jNwc7Ayw==?= wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:00:42AM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
>> Sklyarov violated federal law by reverse-engineering software. If you
>> focus on the fact that he is a "whistleblower," then you just emphasize
>> that he did exactly what the DMCA is designed to prevent: discovering and
>> reporting of software flaws.
>
> Dmitry wrote his program in Russia, and he is Russian citizen.
> The world is not governed by U.S. federal law.

He was in the United States. It is a bad law, but that doesn't change the
fact that he was in the U.S. If I broke Russian law, I probably wouldn't
go to Russia.

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