| U.S. v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov | |
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| Court | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division |
| Full case name | United States of America versus Elcom Ltd., also known as ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., and Dmitry Sklyarov |
| Decided | ElcomSoft acquitted by a federal jury on December 17, 2002 |
| Case history | |
| Prior actions | Dmitry Sklyarov dropped from prosecution in exchange for agreeing to testify and to leave the U.S. |
United States v. ElcomSoft and Dmitry Sklyarov was a 2001–2002 criminal case in which Dmitry Sklyarov and his employer ElcomSoft were charged with alleged violation of the DMCA. The case raised some concerns of civil rights and legal process in the United States, and ended in the charges against Sklyarov dropped and Elcomsoft ruled not guilty under the applicable jurisdiction.
Charges laid in the case were trafficking in, and offering to the public, a software program that could circumvent technological protections on copyrighted material, in violation of Section 1201(b)(1)(A)&(C) of Title 17 of the United States Code (the Copyright Acts, including most of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), as well as Sections 2 (Aiding and Abetting) and 371 (Conspiracy) of Title 18, Part I, of the United States Code (the Federal Criminal Code).