According to Borst, the warrant for Sklyarov’s arrest was issued in the Northern District of California.
If convicted, Sklyarov would face a maximum penalty of a $500,000 fine and five years in prison.
The arrest was first reported byPlanet eBook.
Adobe could not be reached for comment Tuesday morning.
This is the second use of the DMCA’s criminal provisions to prosecute a person accused of copyright infringement.
“I never thought that the DMCA criminal provisions would be actively used.
(Anti-piracy efforts) are usually all about threat and bluster and money.”
“Most security researchers I know aren’t squeaky clean,” he added.
Edward Felten, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, has alreadyfallen afoul of the DMCA.
Now Felten issuingthe Recording Industry Association of America and the SDMI for effectively censoring his research.
“American corporations have never been shy about using taxpayer money to enforce their rights,” she said.
Like the Felten case, however, these cases offer an opportunity to challenge the law.
“This could be the beginning of something bad,” Granick said.
