Here’s the first part (of 2 or 3 total, I’m predicting) of my account of Alexander Katalov’s testimony.

Alexander explained how the Night Administrator for his company had called him on the telephone and woken him up about “a strange email from Adobe.” Alexander went on to explain how his Night Administrator told him that the email sent to them from Adobe said that ElcomSoft had copyrighted material on its site.
Alexander told the Night Administrator that he thought it was stupid to call him up in the middle of the night over it, and that they would work it out in the morning. The Night Administrator called him back again that night, this time at 3am. This time, it was Verio, ElcomSoft’s ISP that was contacting the ElcomSoft, because they too had received a shutdown notice from Adobe over the same AEBPR product, except that the notice they sent to Verio says “within 24 hours”.
Verio is telling ElcomSoft at this point that they are about to shut their entire website down.
Alexander tells his Night Administrator that it’s 3:00 AM and he’s really going to get it in the morning. That it’s absolutely ridiculous that they are selling copyrighted Adobe software on their website, and that all of the confusion can be cleared up in the morning.

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I just wanted to make sure everybody knew that the Jury is still deliberating and they are scheduled to re-examine Dmitry Sklyarov’s video testimony on Tuesday. (I read this in a Wired News article over the weekend, and then confirmed this via email with Judy Trummer, ElcomSoft’s PR person.)
I’m about to post the first in a two or three part segment of my account of Alexander Katalov’s testimony, which I hope to complete by this afternoon.
Then I still have my notes from the RegNow! employee witness to type up, and finally, my synopsis of the Final Arguments.
It’s like a little race for me to finish before the Jury gives their verdict. Lucky for me, it’s a very complex case, and it looks like we have a conscienscious Jury that’s willing to take the time to make the right decision. (They don’t seem to be making any hasty decisions anyway.)
Back in a flash!

Here’s part two of my account of Vladimir Katalov on the witness stand.
You’ll notice that there are more links now within the text. I’ve decided to start integrating the various documents and evidence I’ve been collecting since last year (since July 17, 2001) about the dispute between Adobe and ElcomSoft.
Where the documents are still available in their original location online, I link to them there, with a link my version as a backup. However, some of the emails and message board postings have been removed since last year, so I’m really glad I saved my own copies of them.
I will sprinkle links to the evidence accordingly, as they come up. I’m also in the process of creating an “online evidence” page with everything itemized for easy reference.
I’ll also be going back to my earlier posts and adding links to evidence wherever they fit in.
Two more witnesses (Alexander Katalov and the RegNow! employee) and then off to the Final Arguments…

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I’ll be keeping these installments coming over the course of the day.
Next installment – the Prosecution’s cross on Vladimir Katalov, Alexander Katalov’s testimony and the testimony from the RegNow! employee (Today – Saturday). The Final Arguments Synopsis will go up tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon sometime.
That’s the plan stan!

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The Jury is taking the weekend and Monday to consider the evidence further.
I’m going to blog a Wired News story about it in a second.
I’ve had a power outage the last few hours, so I was unable to post my latest ElcomSoft Trial update, which I will post in a minute.

I’ve decided to go through this stuff in the order that it took place, rather than jumping ahead and discussing the Final Arguments. If I’m lucky, the Jury won’t come up with a decision till Monday, and I can string you along all weekend as I catch up on my notes up until the end of the Final Arguments. And then we can all hear the verdict on Monday morning and it will all be so dramatic.
If we get a verdict today, it will undoubtedly affect my telling of the story. (So that’s just another reason I hope we don’t get a verdict today.)
I also hope that the Jury is really thinking about these issues, and is taking as much time necessary before hopefully coming to the right decision.
So here’s the rest of Dmitry Sklyarov’s testimony, and then I’ll move on to the other witnesses for the Defense (Vladimir Katalov, Alexander Katalov and an employee from RegNow!).

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Here’s my next round of notes from the ElcomSoft trial.
I haven’t heard anything yet about a decision from the Jury.
You’ll know as soon as I do!

“If I was an unscrupulous student, would I be able to use the AEBPR program to make copies (of the course materials) and give them to the other members of the class?”
“Yes.” Dmitry replied. “But it would be illegal to distribute them. You would be distributing them yourself. The program doesn’t do it.”
Dmitry volunteered that an unscrupulous student could also open up the Ebook and take screen grabs of its pages and distribute them, or even print the pages out and make copies of them, and distribute those, illegally, to everyone in the class, if one were so inclined.
Frewing made a point of having Dmitry clarify that it would probably be cheaper and take less time for the unscrupulous student to spend the $99 on the AEBPR program and email them to do students from his home than to perform any of the other options Dmitry had mentioned.
“Yes.” Dmitry conceded. “It might be cheaper.”

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This is just a little informational post to let those interested know that I just got back from the last day of the trial and I’ll have a brief synopsis of the day’s events up soon (within the hour) before getting back to finishing up my extended coverage.
(update: 3:00pm. I’m fried guys. I was up till 2am editing my Trent Lott Daily Show piece, and then I had to be in court this morning at 8:00 am. So I am fr-ied!)
The Jury is planning to deliberate today and tomorrow morning — so we might have a verdict before I “get there” with my narrative account of it — but I’m trying to catch up!
Next update late tonight or early am. Juicy stuff!
Then I will go back and finish the long versions of the witness cross-examinations. Promise.