Adobe Says To Free The Russian Programmer
from the too-little-too-late dept
After realizing that techies all over the world were incredibly pissed off at Adobe for having a Russian programmer arrested and charged with a federal crime, they've bowed to public pressure and have said that he should be released. The more you read about the details of the case the worse Adobe (and the government) looked for putting this guy in jail. It's too bad that the case at least didn't go to court where (hopefully) it would have come out how ridiculous the concept of the DMCA is. However, there's no reason to have kept the poor guy in jail just to make a point. He hasn't been released yet - as that's up to the US Government. However, with the main company behind the case backing down, it'll be tough to justify keeping the case going.
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