SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The first criminal trial under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act will begin Aug. 26, a federal judge decided Monday.

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. of Moscow could be fined $500,000 if convicted of selling a program that let users circumvent copyright protections on electronic-book software made by Adobe Systems Inc.

Such programs are legal in Russia but banned under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Attorneys for the company failed this month to convince a judge that the law is too broad, vague and unconstitutional.

The case originally involved ElcomSoft programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who was arrested after speaking at a hacker convention in Las Vegas last July. But prosecutors agreed in December to drop charges against him after the company's case is resolved.