Russian Cracker Picks A Fight With Macromedia.
Published:
12 March 1999 y., Friday
A Russian cracker calling himself "Ivanopulo" has effectively picked a fight with US software company Macromedia by posting crack-codes for many of the company_s software titles to his web site. According to Ivanopulo, Macromedia_s anti-piracy manager Steve Wozniak has responded to this by first asking him to take down his site and then, when this was refused, by threatening to "make an example" of him. It is Ivanopulo_s belief that within Russia he is allowed by Russian law to reverse engineer software (which he has done) and that the software he has created as a result of that reverse engineering (being the cracks for Macromedia software) is not in itself copyright to Macromedia. In an email to Wozniak, Ivanopulo boldly states "please, stop threatening me in your letters. You achieve nothing doing that. Because if the law will be on my side (and it IS on my side) and you_ll still be persevering with your threatening and insulting letters (like calling me a thief etc.), I_ll take your company into court and you_ll have to pay me for it." Macromedia take an opposing position and view Ivanopulo_s activities as piracy.
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