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CA Supreme Court Saves LiViD, Pavlovich

Posted by timothy on from the for-now-anyhow dept.

joebeone writes "The California Supreme Court has suprisingly ruled that Matthew Pavlovich is not within their jurisdiction in the DVD-CCA's suit against his posting of DeCSS in relation to the development of the LiViD DVD player for open operating systems. What's surprising? It's surprising that they held that his posting of DeCSS was not actionable... (however the use of the program by users to circumvent CSS could be under the DMCA)."

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  1. Indeed by Akardam · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Sometimes, there are some sane Californians.

  2. Re:He's still a criminal by MacAndrew · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Innocent until proven guilty suddenly sounds pretty good when we like the defendant, eh?

    Anyway, this ain't no criminal case.