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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. ping pong by martyn+s · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this feels a lot like ping pong.

  2. Re:This is excellent news by fahrvergnugen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks.

    I was in the rare position of hitting the site in a 1st-post capacity, so I decided I'd only read the headline and post something moronic but in-line with the /. article and at the same time say absolutely nothing of any worth. The point of the exercise was to see if the seals would clap loudly for any old drivel.

    Says something about the /. community that I'm at +4 (at the time of this writing) instead of modded into oblivion, and you're not at +5 like you should be. Your post is interesting, insightful, and informative, and mine's just parroting back bullshit.

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  3. California... by k-0s · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is one thing I am very proud of here in CA, the State Supreme court. We have a very liberal and open minded State Supreme court here. They usually side with the small guy and with individual rights over corporation rights. Too bad all their decisions usually get appealed to the US Supreme court and later overturned.

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