DeCSS Injunction Reversed In CA Case

kinesis writes: "For those of you following the California DeCSS case, a court of appeal just ruled in our favor, overturning the injunction imposed by a lower court. The court's opinion is available in DOC and PDF versions. It's a great read for those who want to really understand the case. The conclusion is nicely summarized with this quote: 'In the case of a prior restraint on pure speech, the hurdle is substantially higher [than for an ordinary preliminary injunction]: publication must threaten an interest more fundamental than the First Amendment itself. Indeed, the Supreme Court has never upheld a prior restraint, even faced with the competing interest of national security or the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial.' " Or you can go straight to the PDF.

Comments

Damn

[wiredog]

I told Valenti that we needed to pay those judges more. Ah well, I wonder how much an Amendment costs?

Pinch me.

[Lemmy Caution]

It's been so long since the right thing has happened in an intellectual property-related case, that I don't believe it.

HEADLINES

[throx]

Ashcroft locks up Appeals Court.

In an unprecedented move, Attorney General John Ashcroft locked up all the Appeals Court judges while waving his arms in the air screaming something about terrorists. In a later statement he made the comment "How could anyone imagine anyone but a terrorist thinking free speech was somehow more important than national security?". Reporters who asked provocotive questions were also taken away for correctional training.

Thank Goodness, I don't have to worry about ELPs

[Syllepsis]

Well, it is certainly a good thing that the Supreme Court holds that a language having a "functional aspect" is still protected speech.

Now I can rest easy that when good english language processors come about and all human language is source code we will still have a first amendment.

Besides, it was really taking my little brother a long time to decrypt some of my DVDs with the instructions I told him in English.

Duhhhh....

PDF?

[chas7926]

>>Or you can go straight to the PDF.

Aren't we supposed to be boycotting Adobe?

Re:PDF?

[alcmena]

Only on Monday and Saturdays. Tuesday and Thursdays we are boycotting all movies. All other days is choose-your-own-boycott day.

Cheap

[powerlord]

Don't worry, Amendments are cheap.

We have lots of Congressman and Senators paid for.

Maybe we can borrow a President from Microsoft for a while so we don't have to wait for our 2/3rds majority to be paid for.

Perl Code

[-stax]

#!/usr/bin/perl
# 472-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file -> descrambled output on stdout.
# usage: perl -I :::: qrpff
# where k1..k5 are the title key bytes in least to most-significant order

s''$/=\2048;while(){G=29;R=142;if((@a=unqT="C*", _) [20]&48){D=89;_=unqb24,qT,@
b=map{ord qB8,unqb8,qT,_^$a[--D]}@INC;s/...$/1$&/;Q=unqV,qb2 5,_;H=73;O=$b[4]>8^(P=(E=255)&(Q>>12^Q&gt ;>4^Q/8^Q))>8^(E&(F=(S=O>>14&7^O)
^S*8^S>=8
)+=P+(~F&E))for@a[128..$#a]}print+qT,@a}';s/[D-H O- U_]/\$$&/g;s/q/pack+/g;eval

Re:OT: Tagline meaning

[scott1853]

Yes, it's way to scary to program in assembler now-a-days. The human brain can't store both Perl and Assembler code, so one of them has to go.

M$ move

[ocie]

Quick. Someone at RedHat, Mandrake, or some other distribution put out a DVD player package. Make a big stink about "innovation" and "giving the customer what they want" If the govt. tells you to stop, counter with:

1) "stop what?"

2) "it is too tightly integrated w/ the OS"

3) "we need to innovate"

4) "OK, we'll change the name of the program"

Re:My Favorite citation from the Decision:

[Danse]

Shouldn't matter. There are some pretty well obfuscated english texts too. They still get first amendment protection though, regardless of whether most people can figure out what the hell they're saying.