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DeCSS' Continuing Saga

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hanging-int-he-balance dept.

blankmange writes "Newsbytes is carrying a followup on the DeCSS and 2600's court cases: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project today asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems." Maybe it's not over yet..."

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  1. Mixed speech and content by jdavidb · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the brief, the DVD CCA argued that, "neither DeCSS nor Bunner's posting of it on the Internet is pure speech." Instead, the group said, courts have treated computer code as "nonspeech" or "mixed speech and content."

    All you l33t h4x0rz out there think you're entitled to free speech. That's just fine and dandy with the MPAA. Just remember that you're not allowed to put content into your speech without a license.

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    1. Re:Mixed speech and content by beckett · · Score: 3, Funny

      actully, the fact that they have numbers intead of vowels in their name automatically disqualifies them from free speech.

  2. This is a DISASTER! by donnacha · · Score: 5, Funny


    Damn, if they make DeCSS legal, my ownership of a T-Shirt with the DeCSS code written on it will be completely meaningless!

    Let's hope that the lower court's decision is quashed.

    1. Re:This is a DISASTER! by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I regret I had but one T-Shirt to give for my country!

    2. Re:This is a DISASTER! by donnacha · · Score: 3, Funny


      Question is, do I get the one with the main source or the one with the decryption tables?

      Ideally you'd get both, but which is arguably the "most illicit"?

      Hell, forget illicit, wear whichever one looks cooler.

      Sometime we nerds have to compromise our principles in the interests of possibly, at some point, getting some.

  3. Idea for ThinkGeek... by bedessen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Take a Sharpie marker pen and print one of the CSS descramblers on it. Hey, now you've got a convenient 2-in-1 DCMA infringement device. Somebody get the ThinkGeek product guys on the phone...

  4. Funny Storry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So this guy says to me "#!/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''$/=\2048;while(){G=29;R=142;if((@a=unqT="C*", _) [20]_=unqb24,qT,@
    b=map{ord qB8,unqb8,qT,_^$a[--D]}@INC;s/...$/1$Q=unqV,qb25,_ ; =73;O=$b[4]>8^(P=(E=255)>12^Q>>4^Q/8^Q ))>8^(E>14=8
    )+=P+(~Fs/[D-HO-U_]/\$$s/q/pack+/g;e val
    ".

    So of course I punched him.

  5. Re:Will this kill Slashdot? by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is it about Perl that tends to make its proponets enjoy making write-only code?

    They're frustrated APL wanna-bes?

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  6. Re:Will this kill Slashdot? by ozbird · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why not create a DeCSS stencil and give it to the IBM sidewalk artists?