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ElcomSoft Jury to Hear Final Arguments
By Roy Mark, Internetnews.c.om, December 12, 2002
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1556031

"A San Jose, Calif., jury will final arguments Thursday morning in one
of the most closely followed copyright trials in recent years. The first
defendant ever charged with criminal violation of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA), Russian software firm ElcomSoft is facing five
counts of circumventing the copyright protections in Adobe Systems
eBooks."
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ElcomSoft Case in Jurors' Hands
By Joanna Glasner, Wired.com, Dec. 12, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56832,00.html

"The legal fate of Russian software developer ElcomSoft is now up to an
American jury, which began deliberating Thursday afternoon to determine
whether the company is guilty of criminal violations of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act. Jurors did not reach a verdict Thursday and
will return Friday morning to continue deliberations in U.S. District
Court here."
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Security Lapses on Campuses Permit Theft From JSTOR Database
By DAN CARNEVALE, Chronicle.com, December 12, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/12/2002121201t.htm

"Someone exploiting a security weakness on college computer networks
this fall tried to illegally download the entire collection of scholarly
journals kept in the JSTOR database."
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Europe's ISPs Overrun with Website Take-Down Orders
BY Reuters Wed December 11, 2002
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=1890308

" Europe's Internet service providers (ISPs) say they are overwhelmed by
a barrage of requests to take from their networks Web sites that violate
copyright or contain defamatory statements."