News and media organizations have been attempting to figure out their futures since the beginning of mass-produced journalism. One such example of sensing where the trends are going can be found in Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson’s 2004 video entitled, “EPIC 2014.” “EPIC 2014” (and the follow-up video “EPIC 2015”) tried to anticipate how markets …
Dmitry Sklyarov, a 27-year-old programmer for ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., was arrested after giving a speech at DEFCon, a major annual technical conference. He was arrested for trafficking software, which could circumvent the technological protection on eBooks in Adobe’s eBook format. He was charged with five criminal offensives. With his arrest came the first criminal challenge …
For a paper I’m working on for a conference, I will be discussing for the next several weeks, the case of U.S. v Elcomsoft and how it relates to “modern” cyberculture. U.S. v Elcomsoft is significant for five reasons. The first being that it was the first direct challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act …