The US Government has dropped charges against Dmitry Sklyarov, the "DMCA Martyr" arrested for writing a code-breaking program in Russia that is illegal in the US, in return for his testimony for the prosecution of his employer. So Sklyarov gets to go home, and (with any luck), the case may still end with the DMCA being struck down.

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