By Pia Heikkila, 18 September 2001 14:05
NEWS The trans-Atlantic Internet Society (ISOC) has slammed the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claiming it threatens encryption research. ISOC said it "supports an interpretation of the DMCA that will not interfere with much needed research that will, in the long run, lead to better software". ISOC's statement echoes the opinions of the Computing Research Association, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Association for Computing Machinery. The society refers to the case of Dmitri Sklyarov and the Princeton professor Edward Felton who both discovered a method of bypassing copyright protection used in digital publications, such as books and records. Sklyarov was subsequently jailed for his efforts.
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