LAS VEGAS – “When Adam Bresson showed how to make copies of copyright-protected videos in a speech at a hacker conference this weekend he realized he was risking arrest for violating U.S. copyright law that landed a Russian man behind bars after the same event last year. But 28-year-old Bresson had his mother, brother and grandparents in the audience and his girlfriend videotaping his talk at the three-day DefCon conference, just in case he was accused of treading too close to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA).
“‘There’s a fine line between creating technologies that bypass copyright protections and demonstrating them,’ he said on Monday. ‘I decided to do it because I think the message is important.’ His message: people’s rights to make ‘fair use’ copies of copyrighted material for personal use are being eroded by copyright holders…”
Pick your source:
- ZDNet News: Defcon remembers Dmitry–blasts DMCA
- Slashdot discussion: Adam Bresson Demonstrates Fair Use at DefCon
- Boston.com’s DigitalMass: US copyright law has hackers on the defensive
- InfoWorld: U.S. copyright law has hackers on the defensive
