Are ‘white hat’ hackers under seige?

A column at ZDNet attempts to answer that question and deal with issues surrounding the arrest of a Russian programmer in the United States. “Who is the DMCA really protecting? If a single author had filed the DMCA complaint against
Sklyarov, I’d understand that. I’d support that. But, as far as I know, no eBook content has shown
up on Internet newsgroups because of the ElcomSoft software. So, who has been harmed by
Sklyarov’s work?”