Not guilty

Has reason returned to the land of DMCA? The jury in the Elcomsoft case seems to have decided it should! Here’s the important part of the jury instructions, to my mind:

“Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said”

Haven’t heard that point made lately, have you? 🙂

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