2600 Appeal Rejected

blankmange writes "Wired is reporting that 2600's appeal has been rejected by a federal appeals court. "The Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a one-line ruling that it was not going to revisit an earlier decision in which 2600 was found to be unlawfully distributing a DVD-descrambling utility. In January 2000, eight movie studios sued the legendary hacker quarterly for posting the DeCSS.exe utility, which decodes DVDs and allows them to be viewed on a Linux computer." The magazine now has 90 days to file a Supreme Court appeal." The Appeals court did not have to take the case, and they didn't. 2600 can appeal to the Supreme Court, but they don't have to take the case either - it's looking more and more as though Kaplan's ruling will stand.

Comments

Monumental Court Decisions

[CmdrTaco (editor)]

It seems that this past week has been filled with some really significant appeals court decisions. First the ruling against anti-abortion website and now this. Certainly interesting times we live in.

One thing I find particularly alarming is the lack of public interest in cases such as these. I asked several people today about what they thought of the decision yesterday, and nobody knew what I was talking about. Anyone else feel frustrated by the general ignorance that is all to common in the American public. I mean, this is front page stuff here people, wake up!

2600's response

[Anonymous Coward]

2600's response is here[2600.org] basically they claim that they're going to organise a million-geek-march on Washington next month. I doubt that it will make a real difference though.

Re:2600 cant get no respect

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree, let me add that slahsdot sucks
real bad, so does linux. I pray daily
for slashdot's demize. Fuck you torvalds.

Re:testing 123‮testing 123 fish

[Anonymous Coward]

Please test here[test.com]. This site has un-moderated forums and tutorials where you can practice your leet html skillz.

mod down!!

[Billly Gates]

Better yet if cmd taco or Hemo's is reading this, please delete it and now mod down! The reason why I am so harsh here is that this would make slashdot a circumvention device that the MPAA could then sue or shutdown within 24 hours! I know this sounds ludicrus but how is this post different then what 2600 did? I do not want slashdot sued or shutdown but free speech is quite illegal under the DMCA and me must follow it until the EFF finally gets enough funding to repeal it. Please don't link illegal code. Thanks