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Originally Posted by TKarrde  Edit: Also, being outside the US isn't any safety. The US has a long history of arresting people for doing things perfectly legal in their country when they step foot in the US. DeCSS author, anyone? Guy writes a DVD decryption program in whatever country he lives in, later on goes to the US for vacation, gets arrested at the airport - even though he had done nothing illegal in his home country where the action took place! |
Jon Lech Johansen moved to the US a few years ago for a job (he moved back to Norway since). He was one of the DeCSS developers. AFAIK he was never arrested in the US but in Norway, and freed and cleared of charges of course. He reverse engineered a bunch of other DRM stuff since then like Fairplay, Play4Sure and other stuff.
I think you are thinking about the
Dmitry Sklyarov who was arrested in the US at some conference for reverse engineering some Adobe shit.