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AMZN is not the only one doing this. Personally, I do not have a problem with it -- done in the bricks and mortar world more than most people realize. However, I am interested in the tech. NetPerceptions is arguably the market leader with their GroupLens technology. ZDNet has a good explanation/review of this technology and here is an ABCNews video (realvideo) reporting the technology. Essentially the application learns your likes/dislikes of products/services (my profile) so that products/services based on these likes/dislikes are recommended to you. Moreover, and this is the part I find fascinating, information is pulled from demographic data/others who have similar likes/dislikes of the same products/services I purchase and very different products/services are recommended. For instance, maybe The Godfather is my favorite movie and, therefore, there is a 90% likelihood that I would like cigars. The site would actively present the sale of cigars to me.
AMZN actively pricing its product based on a specific user and his/her profile is part of this technology --- your profile also dictates prices (higher or lower). Incidentially, other companies with such technology/recommendation engines include: BroadVision, Art Technology Group (ATG), Vignette...

I remember reading a article on string theory that stated that there are actually 12 dimensions to space and that the we exist in 3 of them. The other dimensions are 'folded back' upon themselvs and are not directly accessable.

Which would explain why time on Mondays seem to drag on forever.

You may be thinking of this article.

Here's an interesting article on Viewing Four-dimensional Objects In Three Dimensions.

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we need to order a Linux Fortran compiler in the next month or so, so it looks like Absoft again

Have you tried the NAG compiler? It is what we use here. It definitely does not produce the fastest code, but it very strictly adheres to the f95 standard. We have very little trouble "porting" our code to other platforms with less strict compilers (SGI, IBM).

I do wich there was a free (as in beer and speech) f95 compiler. If I only knew more C I would lend a hand with G95...

as an executive member of my college radio station, I'd argue the fact that there isn't any good music. If anything, there is MORE good music now than ever before. Thanks to technology and decreasing costs of really good equipment, almost everyone can make an album that sounds as good as one produced by WB or the other major labels.

Therefor, the question isn't that there isn't good music, just that no commerical top 20(which all commercial radio stations are now, by the way...) radio station is willing to play them. They are only willing to play something "safe," something that falls clearly within the genre, something that sounds similiar to another band that has proven sucessful.

If you want to hear the good music, now you have to turn to college radio. One I would suggest is the U of Minnesota's Radio K--they broadcast via realaudio, and you can check them out here

mike kohout

From their page:

The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is an archives and research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing through historical research and archival activity.

Things are not good in the computer history business. In part because the main-line companies that felt this was important have faded into oblivion (think mainframe and mini) and the dot coms are too interested in wasting their venture capital on roll-out parties.

The sadest example of the problem is the death of the Boston Computer Museum. Strongly supported by DEC, when DEC went away, so did their funding (and yes there were other reasons including some idiots for executive directors). I was in it several weeks before it closed and a pretty sad thing to see. It has been 'moved' to the Boston Science Center.

The actual museum for the BCM is in California and can be found at Computer History Center. It looks to be alive and interested in history, not 'gee, look, computer interactive toys for school bus loads of children to play with instead of learning how to add, subtract, multiply or heaven forbid divide without a calculator'.

Probably the most respected computer history place at the moment is the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota.

In any case, learn more, subscribe to IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and remember that the dot comes have mostly forgotten/ignored all of this and so you can make money consulting on 'NEW' ideas that are actually old things revisited.

--multics.

Why don't you send an email to these folks. They run a library devoted to the history of computing at the University of Minnesota. I'm sure that they would be happy and able to lead you in the right direction. Charles Babbage Institute

Actually...

Depending on the state, any such policies may be unenforceable. My Assignment agreement with my employer (governed by the State of California), not only cites, but quotes section 2870 of the California Labor Code:

a) Any provisions in an employment agreement which provide that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:

i) relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or

ii) result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

b) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable.

Since I actually live in Minnesota, I thought I'd look up our (similar) assignment law:

Chapter Title: EMPLOYMENT; WAGES, CONDITIONS, HOURS, RESTRICTIONS
Section: 181.78

Text:
181.78 Agreements; terms relating to inventions.

Subdivision 1. Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of the employee's rights in an invention to the employer shall not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time, and (1) which does not relate (a) directly to the business of the employer or (b) to the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (2) which does not result from any work performed by the employee for the employer. Any provision which purports to apply to such an invention is to that extent against the public policy of this state and is to that extent void and unenforceable.

Subd. 2. No employer shall require a provision made void and unenforceable by subdivision 1 as a condition of employment or continuing employment.

Subd. 3. If an employment agreement entered into after August 1, 1977 contains a provision requiring the employee to assign or offer to assign any of the employee's rights in any invention to an employer, the employer must also, at the time the agreement is made, provide a written notification to the employee that the agreement does not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time, and (1) which does not relate (a) directly to the business of the employer or (b) to the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (2) which does not result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

HIST: 1977 c 47 s 1; 1986 c 444

I also looked at my alma mater's policy, I didn't sign anything over (current policy, not the one while I was there).

Now, IANAL, but I'd like to think that MN and CA's employment agreement laws could be extended to academia, especially because students generally pay for their education, rather than get paid for it. In fact, since no pay occurs, I'd like to think that those assignments would also be null and unenforceable.

I work at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management as a Solaris and Linux (and occasionally NeXT(!)) administrator. The strange thing about this building is that about a third of the rooms in this building are `sponsored' by somebody. Some of these sponsored rooms are just offices! Each one has a plaque above it saying that somebody helped pay for it.

Some day, I've got to go around and count how many plaques there are... There are a lot of them..

Also, UMN has a contract with Coca-Cola for their beverages. Even the water used at many sporting events comes from Coke (Dasani is a Coca-Cola product).
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Ski-U-Mah!

``...play with it a little and you'll never use telnet and FTP again''

Of course, people forget about their mail a lot. Here at UMN, our central mail servers run stunnel, so you can read your POP3 or IMAP mail over an SSL tunnel. Before I found out that they were doing this, I was really bothered by how many people could be sniffing my password. I had tried usin SSH tunnels, but that required you to stay logged in.

New versions of Netscape Communicator do support SSL, and I believe recent versions of mutt do too.
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Ski-U-Mah!

This reminds me of Boris Vian's song, La java des bombes atomiques , which described some amateur tinkerer making atomic bombs in his garage...

(Quick English translation below for the french-impaired)...

La java des bombes atomiques

My uncle, a famous tinkerer
used to make, as an amateur
some atomic bombs

Without ever learning anything
he was a real genius
when it came to practical works

He locked himself all day long
in his workshop
to make his experiments

And in the evening,
he came back home,
and explained it all to us.

To make an A-bombs,
children, believe me,
it's really a piece of cake.

The detonator question
is solved is a quarter hour
it's the one we put aside.

And for the H-bomb,
it's not much harder,
but one thing bothers me,
is that the bombs I make
only have a action radius
of only three meters fifty.

There's something wrong there,
I'm going back right now.

He worked at it for days
trying, with love,
to improve the yield.

When he ate with us,
he wolfed down his soup
We saw to his appearance
that he fell upon a hard part
but we dared not say anyhing.

Then one evening, during the meal,
here he sighs, and starts shouting:

As I'm getting older,
I see better
that my brain is failing
it ain't a brain anymore
it's like béchamel sauce
It's been months and years
I've tried to increase my bomb's
yield, and I never noticed
that the only thing that matters
it's the place where it falls down.

There's something wrong there,
I'm going back right now.

Knowing that success will be close,
all the great heads of state
came to visit him.

He received them and excused him
that his shop was so small.

But as soon as they were all in,
he locked-them up,
telling them be nice!

And when the bomb went off,
of those people nothing remained.

My uncle, in front of the result,
didn't chicken-out
He played the dummy
In front of the court
Before the jury,
he mumbled

Gentlemen, it's a horrible bad luck
But I swear in front of God
That in my soul and conscience
That by destroying those crooks,
I am convinced of having
Served my countryu.

They were embarrased,
So they sentenced him,
then they pardoned him.

And in reward, the country
elected him head of the government.

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If NEST doesn't have *immediate* access to the information they need, bad things will happen, like cities being atomized or poisoned by plutonium.

Cities atomized? How?

The toxicity of plutonium is a myth. What's worse, it's also pseudoscientific nonsense perpetuated by muddy thinking. I hesitate to post a link for fear of tanking an innocent web server, but here it is. Here's another link with more numbers, and another.

It's not poisonous in the chemical sense. There are any number of common materials that are more toxic chemically than plutonium. The chemical tocxity, if there is any (it has not been observered) is completely insignificant compared to its radiation effects. It is most dangerous when inhaled, since it is an alpha emitter and can then raise the risk of lung cancer. Even so, there are no peer-reviewed studies showing that plutonium is extremely dangerous when inhaled. This is just one of those old canards that will probably never die.

I was also disappointed not to see a symbolic logic algorithm such as the Resolution Theorem Prover (Robinson, 1965) or Circumscription (McCarthy, 1980). I'd like to have been able to point to something of Jon Barwise' Situation Semantics, but couldn't think of a specific algorithm to highlight.

It isn't a science. Science can tell me that given this, this, and that, you get this result. If I hold a torch under a glass of water, the water will boil. Economic theory can't do that - it can plot relationships - like if unemployment goes up that GNP may go down, but it is NOT a hard science. Economic theory can do things like tell you how to build a portfolio to eliminate risk (historical footnote: the two guys who came up with the theories surrounding risk in the stock market were one of the first to make an attempt at quantifying real, tangible, things. Until about the mid 70's economic theory had formulas consisting of things like "consumer happiness" in them). You can call it a science, even make it sound like science, but science has definable traits which economic theory lacks.. one of those would be the ability to reach a firm conclusion from the data. That's kindof the problem with economics - it is a living model. You cannot have a control group where you drop a hundred consumers into Economy A and another hundred into Economy B and see what happens. As such, it fails the first litmus test of being a science.

And the most basic discover of economics is that when things become scarce their price rises. And yet, the price of resources has been dropping.

Funny you should mention that. I just got back from the gas station - prices are up to $1.70 over here, from $1.19 this past fall. But, not being one to trust only my experiences, decided to consult my macroeconomics book (ISBN 0-07-046814-1, Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies). The consumer price index (CPI) in 1929 was 17, and in 1970 was at 38.8. About those falling prices...

Do you realize that over most of the last century, the US has had continuous growth in the amount of land dedicated to forests?

Yes, but did you know that most forests aren't in the US?

Don't say things which are obviously wrong, or not obviously right, or provably wrong with a little bit of research and I won't slam you. Sheesh!

I did my research. Can you apologize?

I found a page comparing the 500 mhz Alpha 21264, the 400 Mhz Apple G4 (using optimized code), and a 600 Mhz P3 "Coppermine". Here is the link. Basically, the G4 with altivec smokes the P3, but the Alpha absoloutely demolishes the G4 and P3. The alpha would probably even beat the G4 and P3 if it gave them a clock advantage of 300 Mhz. With a 1.2 Ghz Alpha you will be hard pressed to find something faster

You're joking right? Legitimate MP3s are rarely ever distributed on Napster.

So you're saying if I was to get a Phish song off of Napster that would be worse that getting it off of the Phishing pole, or sugarmegs, or hell, even recording it off the Phishcast?

Napster is a *better* service.

Loads of indie bands (and signed bands for that matter) have MP3s available for download on their webpage, not to mention the legitimate webpages out there that distribute MP3s

Very true, and they should have some MP3s on their page. They could even call them *blessed* mp3s. Record live shows. It costs roughly $300 to record a live show and put it on the Net as MP3s. Even less to gain a worldwide promotion network (i.e. Napster)

Getting rid of Napster is not going to help the RIAA keep indie bands down.

Yet it helps tremendously to control access to a wide range of music. It removes the control they have worked so hard to create. Napster *replaces* the RIAA and their control mechanisms. The value they offer musicians is promotion. That's what Napster does, or at least that's what I use it for. Just because some other folks don't know a good thing when they see it doesn't mean that thing should be illegal. There are better ways to deal with technology than condemning it as evil and suing any company that tries to use it.

The way to solve this problem is not through draconian technical measures that will replace promotion as the most expensive part of music. The way to solve this problem is with sensible, enforcable, fair laws. As well as the idea, which I fully grasp and act upon, that you must support the music you like monetarily if you wish more of it to be created.

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You will want to check out the linux terminal server project and maybe also this site.
I suggest not having hard drives. Go with a bootrom or an etherboot-enabled floppy disk. And definately go for full-duplex ethernet. 10 or 100 mbits, depending on what kind of hardware you can get.

They certainly aren't useless! At the school I go to, we use an old 6100/60 MHz as our webcam! :) See it here.

There is GroupLens to apply something like this to USENET. Check out their work.

Unfortunatly, the only work I know going on with this is a few professors that I had in college. You can look at their web pages at: Joseph Konstan, John Riedl. The latter site has a lot more information. (ie a link to something)

It is usenet only, but I think this is a way to start. Then we just need a way to rate pages that everyone works on, and can agree to partially. If 100 people call a web site pron, and 10 call it interesting, I'd not want my children to see it. If 5 call it porn, and 100 call it interesting, it might be interesting, but not viewable (by my children who I want to protect more then most /. readers) without a parent to decide if the child needs to know about brest cancer in that level of detail. (TO give an example of where useful information and porn can cross).

Then there is violence. I wouldn't want to view any "violent" web site myself, if the site was movies and pictures of one person murdering anouther. However if the website was hunting videos, I personally consider that normal content and would let anyone of any age see it. A colarabative filter allows me (with time) to build up a personal database cross references with others. then it can say "100 other parents who tend to think like you have called this [murder] site bad" vs "Many people call this [hunting] site violent, but those who tend to agree with you recomend it." If the entire world rates every site they visit out of habit, this could be useful.

Note that above I intentially stuck to single issures. The hunting site with naked hunters is unaccaptable (to me), even though the hunting content may be good. Filtering software must be complex enough to handle all this issues, and yet be simple enough that people use it.

There is GroupLens to apply something like this to USENET. Check out their work.

Unfortunatly, the only work I know going on with this is a few professors that I had in college. You can look at their web pages at: Joseph Konstan, John Riedl. The latter site has a lot more information. (ie a link to something)

It is usenet only, but I think this is a way to start. Then we just need a way to rate pages that everyone works on, and can agree to partially. If 100 people call a web site pron, and 10 call it interesting, I'd not want my children to see it. If 5 call it porn, and 100 call it interesting, it might be interesting, but not viewable (by my children who I want to protect more then most /. readers) without a parent to decide if the child needs to know about brest cancer in that level of detail. (TO give an example of where useful information and porn can cross).

Then there is violence. I wouldn't want to view any "violent" web site myself, if the site was movies and pictures of one person murdering anouther. However if the website was hunting videos, I personally consider that normal content and would let anyone of any age see it. A colarabative filter allows me (with time) to build up a personal database cross references with others. then it can say "100 other parents who tend to think like you have called this [murder] site bad" vs "Many people call this [hunting] site violent, but those who tend to agree with you recomend it." If the entire world rates every site they visit out of habit, this could be useful.

Note that above I intentially stuck to single issures. The hunting site with naked hunters is unaccaptable (to me), even though the hunting content may be good. Filtering software must be complex enough to handle all this issues, and yet be simple enough that people use it.

Report 1

Of course another report says that "up to 60% of campus traffic" was caused by Napster.

Report 2

I'm not sure which one I should believe, and after reading through the letter sent out to all the students telling them of the ban I got the feeling that bandwidth wasn't really the issue, but more of a nice scapegoat. The whole issue reeked of our General Council office and it smelled like they were afraid of being sued by the RIAA.

Of course life hasn't changed much since the ban. People just switched to different programs like iMesh or Spinfrenzy. Or they just went out and found a proxy server to run through. So far no one has been "busted" for using Napster even though I know of a number of people that still use it. All in all it does seem like information on the Net does want to be free. The old guard continues to fight to keep the old ways in place, and the younger generation keeps fighting to make changes. Sounds strangely familiar, like this has happened before. Just over different issues.

Report 1

Of course another report says that "up to 60% of campus traffic" was caused by Napster.

Report 2

I'm not sure which one I should believe, and after reading through the letter sent out to all the students telling them of the ban I got the feeling that bandwidth wasn't really the issue, but more of a nice scapegoat. The whole issue reeked of our General Council office and it smelled like they were afraid of being sued by the RIAA.

Of course life hasn't changed much since the ban. People just switched to different programs like iMesh or Spinfrenzy. Or they just went out and found a proxy server to run through. So far no one has been "busted" for using Napster even though I know of a number of people that still use it. All in all it does seem like information on the Net does want to be free. The old guard continues to fight to keep the old ways in place, and the younger generation keeps fighting to make changes. Sounds strangely familiar, like this has happened before. Just over different issues.

Or at the higher level (shell script virus):

yes, you can see this mirror of the readme on DRI to see which cards are supported for 3d now. As a TNT 2 owner, I was dissapointed to see the 3d part isnt done yet. Only Voodoo3 cards and 3dlabs oxygen cards are supported right now.i reckon nvidia, or Precison Insight, should be done soon with the drivers? I think the 2d performance is completed.

While I am not familiar with the policies on other campuses, I can speak to the policy regarding Napster that recently went into effect at my school, the University of Minnesota at Morris. According to school officials, as much as 30% of our bandwidth (which is a healthy DS3) was being taken up by Napster traffic. It was decided that this was a violation of the school's Acceptable Use Policy since it "overloaded... networks with excessive data."
While it is possible to argue that the act of blocking Napster traffic itself is an act of censorship, the school hasn't stopped there. In trying to accomplish the stated goal of reducing network traffic, they have blocked all access to the Napster domain. The University of Minnesota has four campuses, but all must send their data through the Twin Cities campus before it is sent out into the world. Traffic to any Napster servers is blocked at the Twin Cities' router. This includes access to the Napster web server.
If this was a private school, the matter might be closed. However, as a public institution, the University is an extension of the state, and any action taken by the University constitutes State action. The First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution forbid the states from abridging the freedom of speech. In preventing access to a website whose nature and purpose is to convey information is a violation of said amendments. It can be argued that there is a compelling governmental interest in limiting network traffic, but that does not allow for civil rights violations of this sort.
I am not familiar with the various blocking options on a router. It seems to me, however, that it should be possible to simply limit traffic to a certain amount of bandwidth. That would alleviate the Napster issue as stated in the policy.

For those that are interested, the school's Napster policy can be found at: http://www.mrs.umn.edu/cs/general/n apster.shtml

• Australiasia
  
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  • ftp://ftp.netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub /XFree86
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  • ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/Linux/xfree86
  
  
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  • ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/XFree86
    
  • ftp://x.physics.usyd.edu.au/pub/XFree86
  
  

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• ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/XFree86
  
• ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/X/XFree86
• ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/mirrors/x free86
• ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/XFr ee86
• ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/m irrors/xfree86
• ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/XFree86
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• Austria
  
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  • ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/X11/XFree86
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  • ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/X11/XFree86
  
  
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  • ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/xfree86/XFree86
    
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• Italy
  • ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/XFree86
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Beware, it might be broken. -Tim

i dont use x much and dont want the extra load of something i'm not going to look at, so i stick to command line players. normally i use amp, but for the extra functionality of a playlist and an ncurses based interface i use gamp. gamp is still in the early stages and occasionally wont play certain tracks, but it is a good start. I hope to finish some improvements to it and get a new version up soon.

Russ

Go on - flame me, but I think The Amateur Scientist article series from Scientific American can provide you with more interesting cool things to play with.

Not to mention Klein Bottle.

Regards,

January

P.S. Yes, I used to play with Lego. And chemicals. Rockets. And old radios. Transistors. Repairing things. And so on. Any kind of toy which had screws in it.

Sure, the music industry sucks ass and don't deserve the cash, but ultimately by pirating MP3's and filling your CDR's with them doesn't help the individual artists one bit. Musicians are already getting screwed by the industry at large, they DON'T need to be doubly screwed by people pirating their music this way.

So, we shouldn't try and fight the people who are screwing the artists, but should instead support them in their screwing activities? I've seen too many "Where are they now" and "Behind the Musics" to think that I'm *helping* Britney Spears by buying her super-duper album.

So you're left with a choice, wait a sec, Choice. How much Basement Jaxx do *you* hear on the radio? I'd never heard them before. I'm sitting in a bar with a friend and he mentions them. What do I do? Go home type "Basement Jaxx" and start listening to some cool music. Now, pray tell, how is this bad? How much more likely am I now to buy their CD? I never would have heard *of* this band, much less had an oppurtunity to listen *to* them, without more effort on my part. Well, I'm a lazy consumer. There are lots of lazy consumers. Most just buy what they hear on the radio, or MTV, or what their immediate friends have. Now we have a chance to get exposed to the full spectrum of musical talents, and love more music.

I don't believe that I need to pay $16 dollars for a CD when I KNOW that $5 went to make sure I heard about it over and over again, $7 went to some guy because he had the other $5 to tell me about it, $1 pays for all the stuff it comes in, $2 goes to the company that stole, err, owns the rights to the song, which is the only way the artist (who gets some of that last dollar, minus taxes) could get the $5 to tell me about the song. Thats fscked up.

Oh, and, for your "you can't make any money giving away music" b.s. whining. I give you this link.
75,000 people at $175 a piece, that's real money. How? LIVE MUSIC. It's really the only music worth paying for, espcecially, (and this is important) since the Internet reduces costs of reproduction and distrubution for the producer to zero.

I make a conscious choice to support MP3, I think it's a great way to share music. And nobody gets hurt (unless you think it hurts artists for more people to pay attention to them). Hell, nobody has to do anything, but me and my anonymous benefactor. Artists make most of _their_ money from live shows anyway (at least real ones), music is a live art form. NO method of recording will ever replace being there, but, new technologies can change the real world value of things, often reducing thier usefulness to zero.

Oh, and by not blindly believing the people who stand to lose billions when people turn to MP3, you might end up with more cool stuff like this (a rebroadcast of all 14 hours of music from the other link). I'm not saying all bands can do this, but some can. And here is a very definite "Yes, you can make money by giving away music. You just have to keep making it, and do it very well."

Yeah - I should have said "chaotic" instead of "random".

> Is there some way a hardware-driven random number generator could help you "clean up" noisy images?

Actually, I remember seeing exactly such a thing - someone added some noise to an image, and the lines in the "noisier" image stood out better.

I can't find the link to that site, I saw it months ago.

I did, however, find "The Use of Analogue Noise in the Clarion Cochlear Implant to Improve Signal Coding" (Morse and Boyle), on this site. As near as I can figure from the abstract, previous studies hinted that adding noise to speech signals helps them become more audible in models of the cochlear nearve - these guys tried (and succeeded) in replicating the theory by adding noise to an implant in a live human being.

See also "The Effects of Additive Gaussian Noise on Speech Recognition in Cochlear Implant Studies" (Throckmorton and Collins), abstract a few pages deeper into the page. "Results indicate that the addition of sub-threshold noise to speech prior to signal processing improves both vowel and consonant recognition." (though the degree varies from sound to sound and person to person.)

Such certainty, such certainty. One of the things you learn from Philosophy (Western analytical Philosphy, anyway) is that all the cool sci-fi paradoxes and ideas that got you interested in the subject when you were 17 are MUCH MORE COMPLEX THAN THEY LOOK.

Do a google search for 'putnam brains in vats' or somesuch and check out some of the papers people have written. One is below:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~dcole/evil90.htm

1. Spend > $50.00 per month on Gizmos that I don't need to survive. This year i've spent close to $400 a month on things that I really don't need i.e.

• Domain Name www.nullnvoid.org $70.00 InterNIC charge
• Host DreamHost average $25.00/month
• Uswest DSL Line/Service $40 a month
• Palm3x $299
• WD 20GB HD ATA/66 7200rpm $179
• MS Intelimouse Explorer $69.99
• KDS 17" FLT Trinitron CRT $299.99
• PIII 500 w/intel MB $200.00
• 3 credits at U of MN $500
• Various books $50 a month
• New car deck w/speakers $500

2. Go to school and get a CS:IS degree (it should just take me 3 more years)

3. Become more sensitive, and stop laughing at dumb girls if they're cute (and if they're sitting at the same table)

4. change www.nullnvoid.org to www.nv.com and make my own linux distro and go ipo and retire.

5. hunt down the shit who keeps on sending me spam (ADV Adult) I'm going to hunt you down and kill you, or sue you so i can null resolution #1.

1) I do not own any DVD related devices. As a result, I cannot pirate anything related to this DVD junk. I just find it humorous to make that assertment.

2) I have put the files back up at http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/. The Weil guys got it wrong in section 20. (heh)

3) We better have an even better showing on January 14th. If they thought that this was incredible, they should be surprised come the 14th and we have every major media outlet in the nation out there plus 400+ supporters littering the concrete with source code.

"David M. Chan, an Individual;"

I have wondered about this very idea many times, and my conclusion is the earlier in life the implant, the more 'natural' it could be. I think it would be hard work to train yourself to use your brain differently once most of your habits are well developed, like using your off-hand to write.
+++

I wonder what it would be like to be able to patch in to a live weather satellite feed? Could you train yourself to interpret the data stream as images? Would that be even meaningful? Perhaps some sort of inner 'feeling' or 'thought' would be more appropriate (what do thoughts look like?). What would it do to your self image/conciousness to experience viewpoints totally divorced from your body? Would you even be able to relate to someone who couldn't experience the same things?

I'm reminded of the Flatland story.

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.

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
   
6. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
7. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
8. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
9. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
10. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
    
11. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
12. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
13. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
    
14. http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
    
15. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
16. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
17. http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
    
18. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
19. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
20. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
21. http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
    
22. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
23. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
24. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
25. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
26. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
27. http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
    
28. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
29. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
30. http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
    
31. 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
    
32. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
33. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
34. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
35. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
36. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
37. http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
    
38. ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
    
39. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
40. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
41. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
42. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
43. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
44. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
45. ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
46. http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz
    
47. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
48. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
49. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
50. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
51. http://209.68.37.134/decss/
    
52. http://muni tions.firenze.linux.it/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
53. http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
    
54. ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
    
55. http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
    
56. 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
    
57. http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001 _104_3.lst.titledetail
    
58. http://killer.discordia.ch /Politics/Copyprotection.phtml
    
59. http://livid.on.openprojects.net
    
60. www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Port/322 4/
    
61. ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
    
62. ftp://ftp.one.net/pub/user s/dmahurin/files/software/dvd/
    
63. ftp://ftp.charm.net/pub/usr/home/dutch/ or http://www.charm.net/~dutch/
    
64. http://www.capital.net/~wooly/
    
65. http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
    
66. http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
    
67. http://dsl129.drizzle.com:2001/downlo ads/DVD/
    
68. http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.h tml
    
69. http://cryptome.org/dvd-free.htm
    
70. http://perso.libertysurf. fr/ortal98/dvd_rip/decss_12b.zip
71. http://www.jonhanson.com/dvd/
    

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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)

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
   
6. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
7. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
8. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
9. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
10. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
    
11. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
12. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
13. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
    
14. http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
    
15. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
16. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
17. http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
    
18. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
19. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
20. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
21. http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
    
22. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
23. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
24. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
25. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
26. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
27. http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
    
28. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
29. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
30. http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
    
31. 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
    
32. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
33. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
34. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
35. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
36. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
37. http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
    
38. ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
    
39. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
40. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
41. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
42. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
43. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
44. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
45. ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
46. http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz
    
47. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
48. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
49. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
50. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
51. http://209.68.37.134/decss/
    
52. http://muni tions.firenze.linux.it/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
53. http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
    
54. ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
    
55. http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
    
56. 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
    
57. http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001 _104_3.lst.titledetail
    
58. http://killer.discordia.ch /Politics/Copyprotection.phtml
    
59. http://livid.on.openprojects.net
    
60. www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Port/322 4/
    
61. ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
    
62. ftp://ftp.one.net/pub/user s/dmahurin/files/software/dvd/
    
63. ftp://ftp.charm.net/pub/usr/home/dutch/ or http://www.charm.net/~dutch/
    
64. http://www.capital.net/~wooly/
    
65. http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
    
66. http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
    
67. http://dsl129.drizzle.com:2001/downlo ads/DVD/
    
68. http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.h tml
    
69. http://cryptome.org/dvd-free.htm
    
70. http://perso.libertysurf. fr/ortal98/dvd_rip/decss_12b.zip
71. http://www.jonhanson.com/dvd/
    

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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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)

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
   
6. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
7. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
8. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
9. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
10. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
    
11. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
12. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
13. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
    
14. http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
    
15. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
16. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
17. http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
    
18. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
19. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
20. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
21. http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
    
22. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
23. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
24. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
25. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
26. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
27. http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
    
28. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
29. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
30. http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
    
31. 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
    
32. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
33. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
34. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
35. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
36. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
37. http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
    
38. ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
    
39. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
40. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
41. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
42. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
43. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
44. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
45. ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
46. http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz
    
47. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
48. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
49. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
50. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
51. http://209.68.37.134/decss/
    
52. http://muni tions.firenze.linux.it/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
53. http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
    
54. ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
    
55. http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
    
56. 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
    

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)

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
   
6. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
7. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
8. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
9. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
10. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
    
11. http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
    
12. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
13. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
14. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
    
15. http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
    
16. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
17. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
18. http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
    
19. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
20. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
21. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
22. http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
    
23. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
24. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
25. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
26. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
27. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
28. http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
    
29. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
30. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
31. http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
    
32. 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
    
33. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
34. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
35. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
36. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
37. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
38. http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
    
39. ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
    
40. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
41. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
42. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
43. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
44. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
45. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
46. ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
47. http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz
    
48. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
49. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
50. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
51. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
52. http://209.68.37.134/decss/
    
53. http://muni tions.firenze.linux.it/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    

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

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

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)

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
   
6. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
7. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
8. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
9. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
10. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
    
11. http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
    
12. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
13. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
14. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
    
15. http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
    
16. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
17. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
18. http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
    
19. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
20. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
21. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
22. http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
    
23. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
24. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
25. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
26. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
27. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
28. http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
    
29. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
30. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
31. http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
    
32. 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
    
33. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
34. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
35. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
36. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
37. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
38. http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
    
39. ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
    
40. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
41. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
42. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
43. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
44. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
45. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
46. ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
47. http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz
    
48. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
49. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
50. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
51. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    

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)

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://home.worldonline.dk/~ andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://home.t-online.de/home/skinn er01/decss.zip
   
6. http://www.chello.nl/~f .vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
7. http://www.geociti es.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
8. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
9. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
10. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vr eeken/
    
11. http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
    
12. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
13. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-aut h.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
14. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip
    
15. http://frozenlinux.com/civ/decss/
    
16. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
17. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
18. http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
    
19. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
20. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
21. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
22. http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
    
23. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css -auth.tar.gz
    
24. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
25. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.ht ml
    
26. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
27. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
28. http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
    
29. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
30. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVi d.tar.gz
    
31. http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
    
32. 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
    
33. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~a drian/css/index.html
    
34. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
35. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css /css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS .zip
    
36. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css -auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
37. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
38. http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
    
39. ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
    
40. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
41. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderm an/dvd.htm
    
42. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
43. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
44. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
45. http://www.twistedlogic.com/htm l/tl_archive_map.htm
    
46. ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
47. http://mu nitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamcipher s/decss.tar.gz
    
48. http:/ /munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/stream ciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
49. http://muni tions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    
50. http://mun itions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/ decss.tar.gz
    
51. http://uk1. munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/de css.tar.gz
    

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

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

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

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

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