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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. I have dicovered a bug! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    10 Print "8illy 6ateZ got M4D 5ki11Z"
    20 Goat2 10
    #include
    typedef unsigned int uint;
    char ctb[512]=
    .....

    It's obvious that release of this would jeapordize National Security.

  2. wait a minute by glwtta · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    First Amendment Project? FAP? Organizations really need to check their acronyms when they pick names.

    --
    sic transit gloria mundi
  3. heh. first funny post also. by sixSecondsOfDefeat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod that guy up, then mod me down, then go bite a curb.

  4. Shot down? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They lost the trial, and were also shot down by the federal appeals court.

    Shot down my butt, NYC is a "gun free except for the government" zone, just as Eric Corley, aka, Emmanuel Goldstein advocates... umm... oh wait... oh yea... it is the feds doing the shooting here and we all have been disarmed by the courts.

    Be careful what you wish for ;-)

  5. Re:This is a DISASTER! by bilbobuggins · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I want a t-shirt with the URL of a site that contains the code on it.
    ha-HA! try to sue me NOW Fantasia-Boy!