On December 17, 2002, ElcomSoft was found not guilty of all four charges under the DMCA.
The charges against ElcomSoft were not, and a court case ensued, attracting much public attention and protest. He was later released on bail and allowed to return to Russia, and the charges against him were dropped.
On July 16, 2001, Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian citizen employed by ElcomSoft who was at the time visiting the United States for DEF CON, was arrested and charged for violating the United States DMCA law by writing ElcomSoft's Advanced eBook Processor software.
