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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. Re:Will this kill Slashdot? by Kingstrum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sorry, could you phrase your question in the form of a virus ?

    *wink wink, nudge nudge*

    Wouldn't it be a pity if some wretched soul were to send out a virus whose sole purpose was to leave a copy of DeCSS in every computer it touched? Maybe buried 12 folders deep in some random spot on half the world's Windows boxes...

    The MPAA's own servers hosting a pop-up ad with the minimal Perl script showing up every now and then...

    Seems to me the "troublemakers" in our midst have been laying down on the job...so let's get going, boyos and girlos!