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So we're behind the USA again, as per normal by caveman · 1999-12-23 07:49 · Score: 1 · on Q3A for Linux Hitting Stores Today

Fed up as we are of not being able to get movies a a decent time (I.e. on release) at the same time as you lot in the USA, us Euros are behind you again. I went around Woolworths today, while waiting for the coach to this years Ladbrokes Social Club Christmas Dinner & Dance (which if you're remotely interested will be at http://www.notout.demon.co.uk/cdad99/ and found the usual complete lack of games that said anything other than 'Requirements: 100% compatible Windows 95/98/NT system'. Not knowing exactly what a 100% compatible windows 95/98/NT system is (given that Windows 95 is not 100% compatible with Windows 95 (or atleast seems that way)), I didn't buy anything.

So, if you are seeing items in store for linux, you're far ahead of us euro-types.

Anyhow, I need sleep. I'm overdue for about a week's worth... One day the revolution will come. Keep working on it guys, we all know it's the right thing to work towards. It's 01:50 now, so I'm going to start catching up on ZZzzzzzz. Goodnight.

This is the oldest news so far on Slashdot by SIGFPE · 1999-12-22 04:49 · Score: 1 · on Physics Fraud or Ground-Breaking Science?

I've had a link to the blacklight power stuff on my website for years now (and I got the link from a website that was years older). For 400 more crackpots try this

Re:Dual headed? by panchax · 1999-12-18 21:41 · Score: 2 · on Configuring Monitors in X

Two links to get you started:

Using multi-headed framebuffers

Multi-Hea d Mini HOWTO

Association of Autonomous Astronauts got there 1st by fingal · 1999-12-17 21:31 · Score: 1 · on Sex in Space

http://www.uncarved.demon.co.uk/AAA/se x.html for general purpose insanity and instability, this is the focal point of cutting edge research...

http://www.factsheet5.com/Bypass
"Escape From Gravity Bulletin of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts #1. The AAA launches it's five year plan for establishing global community-based AAA groups dedicated to building their own space ships. 'Space Travel is Necessary - Evolution Implies It', Sex in Space, techno-speedcore space-disco, the Luther Blissett 3-Sided Football League. "Only those that attempt the impossible will achieve the absurd." Plus free balloon. 2 sides A4, 4 1st class stamps for the next 4#s from Inner City AAA, BM Jed, London WC1N 3XX."

Many thanks to fantomas for the URL (he's forgotten his password (again), just come back from another space mission and currently can't log in....

Gripes with C++ by Y · 1999-12-08 14:29 · Score: 5 · on JBuilder Foundation is Free - and for Linux

I know you've said in a later post that this was tongue-in-cheek, but I thought I'd add my 2 cents here, anyway, since a lot of people vehemently feel that Java (among other languages, e.g., Scheme) is the worst thing to (dis)grace the programming scene.

The really nice thing about Java and its object-oriented system is that you can mathematically prove that your answer will be of a certain type (a.k.a object), assuming you've written proper code. There is no such guarantee in languages like C++ or C. By giving you the right to directly access memory (via pointers), you lose any chance of definitively predicting the output of your program.

In C, you're told upfront about this - Kernighan and Ritchie explicitly state in the C reference that "types" merely encode the amount of memory you need to allocate for a specific piece of data.

In C++, you are promised real types, but C++ is a superset of C, and you still get all of the direct memory access and other low-level functions that ruin a real typing system. In C++, everything is bits when you get right down to it - even memory addresses.

Let's say you write some code that makes a list of some sort where each node refers to the next node on the list as a node. You finish the code and hand it off. Now some other programmer is called to extend your code. This programmer finds that (s)he can speed up an insertNode(...) function by bypassing your setNext(), etc. functions and directly rewriting the "next" field with some numerical memory address that the new code calculates. By doing this monkeying around, you sacrifice

(a) readability - the next coder to extend the program is going to have a tough time trying to figure out what "blah.next = 0xfff + calcAddr()" means.

(b) predictability - by not working with the list as a whole, i.e., as a list, you can no longer make assumptions about its "listness" and how that affects the outcome of the program.

(c) maintainability - this really is pretty much the same as (a), but it extends a little further. Once you start down the dark path, the code you write to fix the hacks become a hack itself, until you have extremely bloated software.

To reiterate:
1) No pointers - This is good. People abuse pointers.
2) #includes - this has been covered, but just copying the code into one big lump file is not all that great of an idea.
3) Strings are a class - I think deep down they aren't, but this relates to
4) Everything is treated like an object - great! now you can prove things about your program.

For reference, read Luca Cardelli's paper on type systems. It is extremely well-written and I think it is suitable for the layperson.

You can download a PS or PDF file from
http://www.luca.demon.co.uk/Bibliogra phy.html.

The paper is aptly titled "Type Systems" and more concretely nails down the points I am trying to make here.

Btw, if you mean vasectomy, that is the process of removing a man's ability to produce sperm... I'm not sure how that fits into a description of a programming language, or I could be reading the word wrong.

-Y

clarification on Demon case by Anonymous Coward · 1999-12-05 23:25 · Score: 0 · on Internet Service Providers Not Liable for Content

The-ISP-I-Can't-Remember-the-Name-of that removed an article from its news spool for being libellous is still fighting its appeal IIRC, is there a precedent for using an example from an American court in British ones?

it was demon, in a Scottish court, and IIRC they are not still fighting an appeal, because they did not appeal, because if the appeal court made the same decision it would set a solid precedent which they did not want, whereas without an appeal, the precedent would not be so secure.

Quotes are Quotes, Whether Claims are True or Not by Christopher+B.+Brown · 1999-11-24 01:36 · Score: 2 · on ArtX, Hannibal and Consumer Fraud

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

It's what Henry Spencer said.

It's widely known.

There may be merit to your contention that not understanding Lisp results in reinventing it badly; Erik Naggum commonly makes that contention about Scheme, and I have no problem with the assertion that anyone building new systems that ignores the Common Lisp HyperSpec is likely doomed to reinvent parts of it less well than CLTL2.

That may mean that a more valid claim would be more like

Those who do not understand both Lisp and UNIX are doomed to reinvent parts of both, badly.

That still does not deny the historical fact that what is in my .signature is what Henry Spencer said.

I've got a "cookie file" that populates email and news .signatures with random quotes; not all of them are true, at all. Some represent downright falsehoods; the Spencer quote isn't one of those.

If you are feeling so much feeling towards Lisp, then I'm wondering why you're not running Ocelot or SilkOS or NASOS or the rendition of DrScheme atop FluxOS, or, if you're a Common Lisp partisan, perhaps Genera.

Quotes are Quotes, Whether Claims are True or Not by Christopher+B.+Brown · 1999-11-24 01:35 · Score: 2 · on ArtX, Hannibal and Consumer Fraud

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

It's what Henry Spencer said.

It's widely known.

There may be merit to your contention that not understanding Lisp results in reinventing it badly; Erik Naggum commonly makes that contention about Scheme, and I have no problem with the assertion that anyone building new systems that ignores the Common Lisp HyperSpec is likely doomed to reinvent parts of it less well than CLTL2.

That may mean that a more valid claim would be more like

Those who do not understand both Lisp and UNIX are doomed to reinvent parts of both, badly.

That still does not deny that what is in my .signature is what Henry Spencer said.

I've got a "cookie file" that populates email and news .signatures with random quotes; not all of them are true, at all. Some represent downright falsehoods; the Spencer quote isn't one of those.

If you are feeling so much feeling towards Lisp, then I'm wondering why you're not running Ocelot or SilkOS or NASOS or the rendition of DrScheme atop FluxOS, or, if you're a Common Lisp partisan, perhaps Genera.

Re:More info by Master+of+Kode+Fu · 1999-11-22 03:10 · Score: 5 · on Shimura-Taniyama-Weil (STW) Solved

Alas, until I read Paul Hoffman's The Man Who Loved Only Numbers , a great biography of prolific math-geek Paul Erdos, all I really knew about Fermat's Last Theorem came from a painfully bad Star Trek episode. In the Trek universe, the proof still eludes everyone in the 24th century, even Data and a room full of math geeks. While not really a math guy, Picard likes trying to solve it as a hobby and the innumerate Riker hasn't even heard of it, owing the the constant warp core breach in his pants). The book devotes a couple of pages to Andrew Wiles' presentation of his proof, in which he threw "the entire kitchen sink" of twentieth century mathematics and how it's unlikely that Wiles' proof is similar to Fermat's (assuming it existed). Perhaps Fermat thought he had a proof when he really didn't, or maybe it was his way of pulling a fast one on future generations.

I have been told by an applied math geek friend of mine that STW is another one of those "it's all connected, maaaan..."-type theories along the line of "e^(pi * i) + 1 = 0", although a good deal messier. I've also been informed that STW was used heavily in Wiles' proof, not unlike a load-bearing block in Jenga.

(Never mind "First Post!" I hereby start the new tradition of "Most Links!" After all, it's more productive, and more importantly, it's all connected, maaaaaan....)

To see some HTML:Unicode characters by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 11:31 · Score: 0 · on Giving Project Gutenberg Recognition

Try here

Answer to Q2: Unicode 2.1 is in HTML 4.0 by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 11:16 · Score: 0 · on Giving Project Gutenberg Recognition

HTML 4.0 includes version 2.1 of the Unicode standard for international characters which assigns a unique identifier to each of 38,887 characters in the set of the world's major languages. This work is being coordinated by the Unicode Consortium.

A different list of mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 02:48 · Score: 0 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

Here is the most recent version of the css-auth CVS code as well as DeCSS. Please mirror & redistribute.
This page was originally a mirror of http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/, but then rhythm.cx was forced down.
So I've taken it on myself to keep a list of mirrors. I try to update and check the status of the listed sites at least once per day. If you know of any mirrors not in my list, if you wish to mirror this page, or if you find that any of the listed sites went down, then contact me.

you can download the following three files from here:
DeCSS.zip - DeCSS
css-auth.tar.gz - CSS authentication source
LiVid.tgz - Linux DVD Code

MD5 Sums:
d0aff684327a5c7bf110951e42ec3cae DeCSS.zip 8653090161e8f287d365132acb098581 css-auth.tar.gz a940de43a3c20895cf56bbca75c6d7a7 LiVid.tgz

Known Mirrors (as of 17/Nov/1999, 08:30 GMT):

Sites that copied this site (lemuria.org): http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~davi d/dvd/
http://www.c0ke.com/DVD/
http://209.68.37.134/decss/
http://rockme.virtualave.net/
http://caspian.twu.net/dv d/mirrors/www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/

http://www.homestead.com/avoid erman/files/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/avoiderman/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business /avoiderman/
http://www.intelcities.com/Main_ Street/Avoiderman/
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
http://members.xoom.com/lkjhgfdsa2/

Other sites where DeCSS, css-auth and/or LiVid are mirrored: http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip and http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/ (very slow - 33.6 line)
http://members.tripod.co.uk/bap/css/cs s.html
http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz
http://www.dvdlinks.co.uk/css/
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
http://www.jonhanson.com/dvd/

http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/ http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip

Mirrors that appear have gone down since 12/Nov/1999: http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.xs4all.nl/~predator/freecss/freecss.htm l
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/DeCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/css-auth.tar.g z ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/ http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip

The following site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consortium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/
Local Mirror: /DeCSS/crypto.gq.nu

You can contact me at tom@lemuria.org if you have any questions regarding mirroring, or want your mirror added here.

Note to lawyers and other scum:
This information is widely available by now, and no matter what you do, you will not be able to supress it. It was the DVD consortium that f***ed up, and now you're trying to solve a technological problem with threats and legal action?
If there were fines on stupidity, yours would cover the national debts of most western countries.

Mirrors again ooops by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 02:40 · Score: 0 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

Mirrors - Now more than 70!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-17 02:38 · Score: 1 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

Oh yeah

Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Explanation on legality of this information:

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention

www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

UPDATE: Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

I have taken it upon myself to mirror the mirrors. So until such time as the hounds of hell come a-knocking at my door, I present for you this list:

Page last updated: Wed, Nov 17, 2:33pm EST

Current Mirrors
(Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience)

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

hehehehe by emmons · 1999-11-17 01:43 · Score: 1 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

Here's a nice big 'ol list o' mirrors for ya'll out there in cyberland!

http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/ http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-st uff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136/
http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

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Mirror list by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-16 22:58 · Score: 2 · on deCSS Listed On Download.com

Oh yeah

Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Explanation on legality of this information:

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed. It was written by authors who expressly permitted and encourage the redistribution of this software and information. The purpose of this software is not, I repeat not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site are purely written by 3rd parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods, which is, again, completely legal. This software and information below make it possible for people who legally obtained their DVD movies to view them on their Linux systems.

Attention

www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

UPDATE: Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

I have taken it upon myself to mirror the mirrors. So until such time as the hounds of hell come a-knocking at my door, I present for you this list:

Page last updated: Tue, Nov 16, 2:19pm EST

Current Mirrors
(Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience)

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/DeCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/css-auth.tar.g z

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-14 22:24 · Score: 1 · on Activist Defends DVD Hack

Oh yeah

Visit Humpin! (No, it's not what you think!)

Explanation on legality of this information:

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed. It was written by authors who expressly permitted and encourage the redistribution of this software and information. The purpose of this software is not, I repeat not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way a certain protection scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or one of its members. The sources and programs on this site are purely written by 3rd parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods, which is, again, completely legal. This software and information below make it possible for people who legally obtained their DVD movies to view them on their Linux systems.

Attention

www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

UPDATE: Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

I have taken it upon myself to mirror the mirrors. So until such time as the hounds of hell come a-knocking at my door, I present for you this list:

Page last updated: Sun, Nov 14, 8:41pm EST

Current Mirrors
(Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience)

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

Mirrors 2 by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-13 06:19 · Score: 0 · on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO

http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/

http://www.vexed.net/CSS

http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/

http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz

http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip

http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip

http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip

http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/

http://www.unitycode.org/

http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip

http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip

http://decss.tripod.com/index.html

http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/

http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/

http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/

http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz

http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/

http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml

http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/

ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/

http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/

http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html

http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz

http://www.theresistance.net/files.html

ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz

http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html

http://www.dvd-copy.com/

http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip

http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip

http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/

http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip

ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/

http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/

http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm

http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/

http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/

ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136

http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm

ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip

http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz

http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz

http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz

http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz

http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

Mirrors 2 by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-13 06:18 · Score: 0 · on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO

http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz

http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip

http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/

http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html

http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip

http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz

http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html

http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/

http://www.vexed.net/CSS

http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/

http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz

http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip

http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip

http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip

http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/

http://www.unitycode.org/

http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip

http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip

http://decss.tripod.com/index.html

http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/

http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/

http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/

http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz

http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/

http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml

http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/

ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/

http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/

http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html

http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz

http://www.theresistance.net/files.html

ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz

http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html

http://www.dvd-copy.com/

http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip

http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip

http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/

http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip

ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/

http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/

http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm

http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/

http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/

ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136

http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm

ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip

http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz

http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz

http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz

http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz

http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-13 06:16 · Score: 0 · on Watching DVDs in Linux HOWTO

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed. It was written by authors who expressly permitted and encourage the redistribution of this software and information. The purpose of this software is not, I repeat not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information neccesary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way a certain protection scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or one of its members. The sources and programs on this site are purely written by 3rd parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods, which is, again, completely legal. This software and information below make it possible for people who legally obtained their DVD movies to view them on their Linux systems.

Attention

www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

UPDATE: Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

I have taken it upon myself to mirror the mirrors. So until such time as the hounds of hell come a-knocking at my door, I present for you this list:

Page last updated: Sat, Nov 13, 4:50pm EST

Current Mirrors
(Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience)

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

http://www.humpin.org/decss/ by BlueUnderwear · 1999-11-13 04:32 · Score: 1 · on DVD Situation Takes New Turn

Explanation on legality of this information:

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed. It was written by authors who expressly permitted and encourage the redistribution of this software and information. The purpose of this software is not, I repeat not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information neccesary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way a certain protection scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or one of its members. The sources and programs on this site are purely written by 3rd parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods, which is, again, completely legal. This software and information below make it possible for people who legally obtained their DVD movies to view them on their Linux systems.

Attention

www.rhythm.cx was hosting a list of mirrors for these files. That list of mirrors has been replaced with a page reading "This site has been taken down for legal reasons." Here's what the maintainer put on the site the day it was shut down:

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

UPDATE: Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

I have taken it upon myself to mirror the mirrors. So until such time as the hounds of hell come a-knocking at my door, I present for you this list:

Page last updated: Sat, Nov 13, 4:50pm EST

Current Mirrors
(Numbers are only for the maintainer's convenience)

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/

Semi-broken Mirrors
(These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
ftp://134.173.94.44/

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz

Mirrors shut down by The Man
(A moment of silence, please.)
http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

Mirrors Updated (trying again) by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-12 04:14 · Score: 0 · on DVD Situation Takes New Turn

http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/ http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's layers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/ Local Mirror: http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/crypto.gq.nu

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them. I don't know who runs which mirrors; I delete their email once I've added their site in order to ensure their annonymity in the event that the DVD consortium's layers start gnawing at my ankles as well.)

ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip

Mirrors Updated (trying again) by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-12 04:13 · Score: 0 · on DVD Situation Takes New Turn

Current Mirrors (49 so far):

http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/ http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's layers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/ Local Mirror: http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/crypto.gq.nu

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them. I don't know who runs which mirrors; I delete their email once I've added their site in order to ensure their annonymity in the event that the DVD consortium's layers start gnawing at my ankles as well.)

ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip

Mirrors Updated by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-12 04:11 · Score: 0 · on DVD Situation Takes New Turn

css-auth source and DeCSS mirrors Here is the most recent version of the css-auth CVS code as well as DeCSS. Please mirror & redistribute. This site has limited bandwidth, try to use a mirror first. Please mail additional mirrors and broken links to altair@rhythm.cx.

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

css-auth.tar.gz - The code form an open source DVD project.
DeCSS.zip - A Win32 binary for decrypting DVD data streams.

MD5 Sums:

5b8347b8b857f8470b8dbd9a905fc194 css-auth.tar.gz d0aff684327a5c7bf110951e42ec3cae DeCSS.zip

The Md5 sum shown here for css-auth.tar.gz may be different from some other people's as I rebuilt this archive myself. It was originally downloaded from the main site as a zip file.

Page last updated: Fri, Nov 12, 2:55pm EST

Current Mirrors (49 so far):

http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/ http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's layers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/ Local Mirror: http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/crypto.gq.nu

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them. I don't know who runs which mirrors; I delete their email once I've added their site in order to ensure their annonymity in the event that the DVD consortium's layers start gnawing at my ankles as well.)

ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip

Mirror list 2 by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-11 00:09 · Score: 0 · on DVD Situation Takes New Turn

http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://www.xs4all.nl/~predator/ freecss/freecss.html
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's layers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/ Local Mirror: http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/crypto.gq.nu

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them. I don't know who runs which mirrors; I delete their email once I've added their site in order to ensure their annonymity in the event that the DVD consortium's layers start gnawing at my ankles as well.)

ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip

Mirror list by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-11 00:07 · Score: 0 · on DVD Situation Takes New Turn

Here is the most recent version of the css-auth CVS code as well as DeCSS. Please mirror & redistribute. This site has limited bandwidth, try to use a mirror first. Please mail additional mirrors and broken links to altair@rhythm.cx.

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

css-auth.tar.gz - The code form an open source DVD project.
DeCSS.zip - A Win32 binary for decrypting DVD data streams.

MD5 Sums:

5b8347b8b857f8470b8dbd9a905fc194 css-auth.tar.gz d0aff684327a5c7bf110951e42ec3cae DeCSS.zip

The Md5 sum shown here for css-auth.tar.gz may be different from some other people's as I rebuilt this archive myself. It was originally downloaded from the main site as a zip file.

Page last updated: Thu, Nov 11, 12:05pm EST

Current Mirrors (41 so far):

http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/ http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://www.xs4all.nl/~predator/ freecss/freecss.html
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVi d.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56. 32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/

This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's layers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/ Local Mirror: http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/crypto.gq.nu

Broken Mirrors
(These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them. I don't know who runs which mirrors; I delete their email once I've added their site in order to ensure their annonymity in the event that the DVD consortium's layers start gnawing at my ankles as well.)

ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip

Some more info... by cr0sh · 1999-11-10 00:30 · Score: 1 · on Nazi Codebreaking Documentary

Can be found at:

The Colossus of Bletchley Park - The German Cipher System

Computer History (1940-1944)

The Turing Bombe Rebuild Project

Official Bletchley Park Website

The Colossus Rebuild Project

Mr. Flowers Death Announcement in 1998

Rural areas need bandwidth the most by evilandi · 1999-11-08 20:15 · Score: 2 · on 2-Megabit Bandwidth for Your Cell Phone

2MByte or 2MBit, either way mobile telephone bandwidth can only help the most bandwith-starved areas of the world- the rural ones.

I live a bit out in the sticks as my wife points out ( Cotswolds, UK ). Whilst I'm only 500 metres from the telephone exchange, my 'phone line takes a 4 kilometre detour through three neighbouring villages before it gets there. Which means that ADSL and BT ISDN Highway are out of the question.

I consider myself pretty lucky to get 49.3kbps from my telephone line. People in rural parts of America, Asia or Africa will be getting far less.

Yet it is rural areas that need the Internet most. Why would townsfolk want cable TV, teleshopping, multi-user chatlines and home offices when the video shop, supermarket, pub and place of work are on their doorstep? These amenities are often not available to rural users where not only remote location, but sheer lack of numbers, make even subsidised facilities uneconomic.

It is high-bandwidth wireless services like GPRS that will lead the revolution, not cable.

If the post office has to send written data nationwide, regardless of urban or rural boundaries, for the same price, why shouldn't telecoms operators be forced to send digital data nationwide, regardless of urban or rural boundaries, for the same price?

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Um, sure! by invenustus · 1999-11-06 11:03 · Score: 1 · on Online Romance - For Good or Evil?

On the telnet chat server I work on (NUTS is the highest form of communication imho) we have two married couples who moved 500+ miles to be together. I also met my best IRL friend there, along with a girl who was my girlfriend for 17 months. I don't see any harm in it at all.

"Rogue-like" News page by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-06 06:48 · Score: 0 · on Interview: Queen Elizabeth II's Webmaster Answers

I notice several people have posted the old win.tue.nl URL for Rogue and its various descendants. Actually, the win.tue.nl site is *very* out-of-date (3 years?) and has been replaced by the Rogue-like News site, here:

http://www.skoardy.demon.co.uk/rlnews/

Check out the links page for various "Rogue-like" games, many of which have Linux ports and most of which are ASCII. Several are also Open Source and often under the GPL or a variant thereof.

Although there are plenty of games there, a lot of them are incomplete; it's really only worth looking at those with subsidiary sites (in light blue on the page).

My personal favourites are Crawl, Zangband, and, of course, Nethack. But there are a heap to choose from.

I wonder what the Queen would do with the Amulet of Yendor?

More mirrors & a screenshot by Cally · 1999-11-05 06:56 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft == Monopoly says Judge

Another mirror here (419K)

screenshot of how it looks from London (121K)

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More mirrors & a screenshot by Cally · 1999-11-05 06:56 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft == Monopoly says Judge

Another mirror here (419K)

screenshot of how it looks from London (121K)

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Another mirror (PDF only) by Cally · 1999-11-05 06:39 · Score: 1 · on USvMS Ruling Expected Today

Another mirror here (419K)

screenshot of how it looks from London (121K)

shameless plug for vanity URL

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Another mirror (PDF only) by Cally · 1999-11-05 06:39 · Score: 1 · on USvMS Ruling Expected Today

Another mirror here (419K)

screenshot of how it looks from London (121K)

shameless plug for vanity URL

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Another mirror (PDF only) by Cally · 1999-11-05 06:39 · Score: 1 · on USvMS Ruling Expected Today

Another mirror here (419K)

screenshot of how it looks from London (121K)

shameless plug for vanity URL

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You're an idiot... by A+Big+Gnu+Thrush · 1999-11-04 02:12 · Score: 2 · on Post-Hacked DVD: Where to Go?

Does this mean the end of the GPL? Does this mean that I can mirror Slashdot, but without those pesky ads?

IP isn't forfeited in theory or in actuality just because someone has a copy of it. I can hold a Coke can in my hand, but I could be sued if I made my own Coke can. I can copy a DVD and distribute it to my friends, but I could be sued (or put in jail) for theft of intellectual property.

You're unable to conceive of something as property unless you can hold it in your hand, or sit on it.

How do you think our "culture" will adapt to the realization that trademarks, patents, copyrights, are all smoke and mirrors? Who will write novels or create cheesy sci-fi props if there is no intellectual property?

href for Solitaire problem description by Paul+Crowley · 1999-10-30 11:07 · Score: 1 · on Crypto Guru Bruce Schneier Answers

Bruce mentioned my work on Solitaire in his article; you can read about that in Problems with Bruce Schneier's "Solitaire". It also includes a C implementation of the cipher...
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Why Star Trek has to die by Paul+Crowley · 1999-10-29 21:15 · Score: 2 · on Salon Writes on The Troubles with "Trek"

If you want to know why the creaking Star Trek universe has to be retired, the Star Trek Mega-Rant makes it very clear indeed.
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A Strong Case for Logical Positivism by Aladdin+Sane · 1999-10-26 07:18 · Score: 1 · on Beyond The Programmers' Stone

While the author's original philosophers stone piece was of interest, the follow up site is a poster child of metaphysics gone bad. Appying the filter of the verification principle (statements not a tautology or emperically verifyable are meaningless) to the work leaves relatively little, and of that the bits on cognitive limits imposed by language and culture has in fact been previously noticed, as recently as 400-something-BC by Buddha. See just about any of the 1,400 years of writings on this for details.

Re:Clearing up some issues (I hope) by firebird · 1999-10-26 00:42 · Score: 2 · on LinuxDVD CSS Decrypt - Source Available

Basically, this package is the reverse engineered version of a program called DeCSS, something which can be used to authenticate with and unlock a DVD player.

No it's not it's the original source to DeCSS. I've got a copy of that. If it was reverse engineered then the CSSauth.cpp file wouldn't be identical to that in the "proper" DeCSS source and remarkably similar to the code in my CSS authenticion package.

DeCSS will be available under the GPL, but as its source had not been released yet

Actually the source accidentally escaped when DeCSS was originally published.

Re:What to do if a foot-walker obstacles your path by Mawbid · 1999-10-15 05:32 · Score: 1 · on Lost in the Translation

No, no, no, no! You're supposed to tootle him melodiously at first! :-)

(The few) people who hadn't heard this before would do well to read the whole thing.

I remember I received this list by email and along with it, a list of excuses parents wrote for their kids after they missed school. I almost died laughing.
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Re:Modify .us policy and use country code exclusiv by Mr.+Slippery · 1999-10-15 05:28 · Score: 2 · on Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act

What if an additional subdomain under .us were created, say .tm. Items trademarked at the national level would have reserved domain names amounting like "microsoft.tm.us."

The UK already does this. You get sites like www.demon.co.uk - which actually then points you to www.demon.net. Arrrgghh.

The Holographic Hypothesis by 't Hooft by SIGFPE · 1999-10-12 12:04 · Score: 1 · on 1999 Nobel Science Prizes Announced

't Hooft is also known for the 'Holographic Hypothesis'. This is the bizarre sounding idea that in some way space is 2d rather than 3d and may in fact have a lot of resemblances to a 2d cellular automaton like Conway's Game of Life. Strangely this isn't idle speculation but seems to be built into General Relativity from the beginning. I have a few notes and references at my web site. The papers are a bit technical but the results are cool.

So that's the purpose of that annoying penguin ... by Anonymous Coward · 1999-10-12 02:54 · Score: 0 · on Nokia and Intel to make Linux-based Set-Top Box

...on TV. At least in Sweden around 18:00 in the evenings on one of the government controlled channels.

Trying to popularize the Penguin-OS by indoctrination of the children.

So they started by promoting him to doctorhood and now this. What next?

(Check the link to see the actor Tux playing Pingu)
http://www.cookienet.demon.co.uk/fr ackles1.html

Holmganga by Baldrson · 1999-10-08 03:09 · Score: 1 · on CBS to Pay One Million to Desert Island "Survivor"

I wonder if this island in a jurisdiction where Holmgang is legal?

From The Nature of Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England:

Hólmganga literally means 'island going' since duels were traditionally fought on islands. Saxo records a duel fought on an island in the River Eider by the fourth century Anglian king Offa which is also referred to in the Anglo-Saxon poem Widsið.

HAHAHA -- just like Fredrich Pohl's "Midas World" by 1010011010 · 1999-10-08 01:23 · Score: 1 · on Both Students and Teachers Use Technology to Cheat

In "Midas World," Pohl describes a world where people are required to consume their quota of goods each day, for the good of the economy. One guy, in a drunken fit, assignes hits robots to do the consuming so he doesn't have to. At first he's persecuted by the authorities for breaking the law, but eventually his idea becomes standard practice.

Gpod satire. Good science fiction.

["Another Dave Langford review."] [Amazo n]

Re:So, you want to be a real hacker? by Meeko · 1999-10-06 07:18 · Score: 1 · on Dvorak Takes On The Crackers

What a great list! These are great ideas for any kind of "free time" computing project. Does anything like this exist anywhere else on the net?

Take a classic board game and write your own computer version of it. Program "perfect" play for the computer player.

Just remember that there are some games where "perfect" play is very difficult, if not impossible (Go springs to mind, as well as Chess).

Things like Othello and Checkers are do-able though.

Download the Infocom engine and write your own adventure. Write your own MUD or chat program.

Amen! Inform and TADS are great starting points for those aspiring nonlinear writers out there...

Surface-travellers, not population, is what counts by evilandi · 1999-09-27 22:06 · Score: 1 · on The Cell Phone-PDA Revolution

Sporty wrote: Am I the only one that also thinks that the population density of some areas make it quite difficult to do this?

For mobile services it is surface-travellers, not population that counts. After all, if you're talking about static population, have a static landline.

How many people actually permanently live IN Disneyworld? Not many, I suppose. But there are thousands of visitors, so these kind of areas are prime locations for mobile 'phone transmitters.

What helps in Europe is that pretty much everywhere is "on the way" to somewhere else vaguely important. For instance, I live in the rural Cotswolds, UK (you'll be familiar with it if you've ever watched an Agatha Christie movie), which has a low population but is between Birmingham, Bristol and London. Thus even though the local population is low, we have people travelling- by car and train- through our area a lot. And that's why I can get a good signal strength at home despite it being well and truly out in the sticks as my wife points out.

I'm not sure this model would work in the Americas where you're in an "east coast" and "west coast" situation with two large metropolitan areas with very little inbetween- and the "inbetween" is a vast area of thousands of kilometres usually traversed by aeroplane, not car/train.

Of course, all this would be solved by satellite 'phones. But there is no incentive for people to use these schemes in Europe and Asia when GSM works just fine, thanks. And that's not forgetting the huge start-up costs of satellites compared to groundwave TXs.

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Slashdotted by cabalamat · 1999-09-16 17:50 · Score: 4 · on Linux Turns 8

Oh No - I've been slashdotted

-- Phil Hunt, philh@vision25.demon.co.uk

Re:They have the right idea by Nat+Lanza · 1999-09-11 23:20 · Score: 3 · on Hugo Engine and Guilty Bastards for Linux

It's not just them -- pretty much all of the Interactive Fiction community cares a lot about cross-platform compatibility. It may be a small community, but the people in it use a freakishly large range of systems. Because of this, most of the IF developments systems use specialized languages that compile to platform-independent bytecode.

The most well-known of these is Inform, a language written to produce bytecode for the Z-Machine, which is the virtual machine that Infocom used for their classic adventures. So, if there's a z-code interpreter available for your machine (which there almost certainly is), you can play all of the old Infocom games and most of the new Interactive Fiction games with it. Inform has some bitmap graphics capability, but few games use it -- most of the ones that do were written by Infocom (Zork Zero, Shogun, Arthur, and Journey).

There's also TADS, the Text Adventure Development System, which is somewhat similar to Inform but not as well known. This might be because it used to be shareware. TADS interpreters are also available on a wide range of systems, but not all of the interpreters handle all of the fancy new TADS features, like styled text, sound, and graphics. HUGO, the system mentioned here, is generally thought of as the third of the big three IF languages -- it's not quite as popular and not quite as ported. It's still a good language, though, and it's great to finally see a Linux port of the environment.

Slashdot Mirror

Domain: demon.co.uk

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