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More DeCSS Time-Warner Hypocrisy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gotta-laugh-at-this-one dept.

Sethb writes "Scripting News has the scoop about CNN linking to the source code for DeCSS. CNN is a subsidiary of Time-Warner, so in effect they're suing 2600 and others for something that they are doing themselves!" Update: 08/26 02:05 AM by michael : CNN has deleted the link from their story after reporters asked about it. But the screenshots are out there.

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  1. what are you talking about? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    ...so while this is a funny anecdote I don't see it by any means as a sign of hypocrisy.

    WTF?

    The HYPOCRISY is in that 2600 was doing the same thing. They are a journalistic site, but on the fringe. So it's all right for a news site to post as long as their NOT on the fringe, and owned by the plaintiffs? It's just as sleazy for T-W to force any reporting group to pull an article, whether that group is one they own or not.

    If CNN had been the one to "break" DeCSS, and not 2600, there wouldn't have been any court case.. precisely because T-W owns CNN.