42 ways to Distribute DeCSS

Fabien Penso writes "As you know lots of homepages has been shut down or had troubles because they were distributing DeCSS source code (2600.com, ...). This one explains you other ways to share it. Basic FTP, HTTP, but also NetBIOS, ssh, DNS, IRC, Corba (!), XDMCP, CVS, etc. All the examples are also running on the server so you can get a try while you read it." Mirror early, mirror often ;)

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Let's play Web that DeCSS!

[Mr. Barky]

A long time ago (in internet time), in MacUser or MacWorld (I forget which) Andy Ihnatko came up with a game: Web That Smut. It goes as follow. Choose any starting page and follow the links until you find smut. The shortest path wins. (Well, actually, you start with a page and two of you face off and say "I can Web That Smut in x links" like the game Name That Tune - but we're playing the distrubuted version here.) Here, let's play Web That DeCSS - find the path that leads to DeCSS code starting from www.mpaa.org.

Some notes: you're not allowed to type in anything! That is, you can't find a search engine and type in DeCSS. In my solution below, I need to go through the NY Times. Since I've registered with them, I don't have to type in anything, but if you haven't registered, it won't work. Maybe someone can find a solution that doesn't require registration?

http://www.mpaa.org/
http://www.mpaa.org/home.htm
http://www.mpaa.org/tv/
http://www.tvguidelines.org/default.htm
http://www.tvguidelines.org/resource.htm
http://www.nea.org/
http://www.nea.org/news/press/
http://www.edweek.org/clips/
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/17/nyregion/17TEA C.html
http://www.nytimes.com/pages-technology/index.ht ml
http://www.nytimes.com/pages-technology/cybertim es/cyberlaw/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/li nkscyberlaw.html
http://www.eff.org/
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000 808_ny_post_trial_brief.html
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/dvd/
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/DeCSS/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/decss/

They missed a few

[Hairy_Potter]

They missed a few obvious ways to distribute DECss code.

• A really, really long sig file.
  
• Send a R/C truck to the moon, with a lot of diatamecous earth. It could write out the DECss source, and make it visible form earth.
  
• Encode the DecSS code into redundant parts of your DNA.
  
• Change your name to the DecSS code.
  
• Shave your head and tattoo on your bare skull. Your hair grows back and your message is encoded.
  
• Enbed it in a meme; Make Money Fast with DecSS, This is not a chain letter, it's DecSS, Neiman-Marcus Cookie and DecSS recipe.
  

thank you very much

DeCSS Distribution Through Microsoft Outlook Virus

[n3rd]

Since I've seen to many Outlook viruses out there in the past year or two, how about this time we create one that actually does something productive rather than wreak havok?

I say someone writes an Outlook virus that would have compressed copies of the DeCSS source code attached to the message. Like most other Outlook viruses that run without the user knowing, this one would as well, execept it put the DeCSS souce code on a area of the hard drive where the user would normally not look and rename it (say C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKUZIDRV.SYS).

Later, if need be, the file could be retreived through another e-mail to the same person (assuming they keep the same computer) if we find the number of copies out there dwindling. Again, another Outlook virus that would create a new message, attach the file and send it to a specified address.

Hey, maybe I should patent this! Remote File Storage and Retrevial Using Microsoft Outlook.