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Intellectual Property

Jul. 19, 2001

E-Book Decoder Is Focus of First Criminal Prosecution

SAN FRANCISCO - A Russian programmer has been arrested, accused of distributing a program that defeats copyright protection on encrypted electronic book files, in the first criminal prosecution mounted for intellectual property theft on the Internet, federal authorities announced Tuesday.

By Xenia P. Kobylarz
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - A Russian programmer has been arrested, accused of distributing a program that defeats copyright protection on encrypted electronic book files, in the first criminal prosecution mounted for intellectual property theft on the Internet, federal authorities announced Tuesday.
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