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DeCSS Loses Free Speech Shield
JohnGrahamCumming writes "BusinessWeek/CNET is reporting that the California Supreme Court has ruled that 'a Web publisher could be barred from posting DVD-copying code online without infringing on his free speech rights.' They also say that 'the state Supreme Court ruled that property and trade secrets rights outranked free speech rights in this case.'" According to the article, this "...overturned an earlier decision that said blocking Web publishers from posting the controversial piece of software called DeCSS, which can be used to help decrypt and copy DVDs, would violate their First Amendment rights."
So this means we're going to have to buy the DVDs? nope.
People will miss you! Hey, we have some nice places here in Europe. Come join us! :)
... so here's a "from the gut" reaction.
Ah, shit.
Sometimes, the continued reporting of how our rights as consumers are being eroded makes me want to put slashdot in my barred hosts file. And then move to a cave. I'm sick of this crap, I really am.
You win again, gravity!
Dows this mean they have to stop selling the t-shirts too?
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Mr. Cox...come on over to California for your MBA.
Does this mean that DeCSS isn't protected under "fair use" either? Bastages.
This link leads to a story about a related case. I know, it's no laughing matter....
- I should be able to say/print whatever I want! I am teh 1337!
- The US and all it's USians are heading towards a nihilistic semi-fascist state!
- DeCSS only breaks something that wasn't secure in the first place, who cares!
- Six posts of people willing to host mirrors of DeCSS code
- 4 geeks are going to comment on their DeCSS Perl t-shirts!
- One militant troll is going to suggest we bomb MPAA headquarters
- Someone's going to post DeCSS here on
/. to see if they can get the comment removed. - 3 or 4 trolls who have no idea what DeCSS is are going to ask anyone if they know how to disable regions on their DVD player
- Requisite flames will be posted telling the posters from the last bullet to STFU and RTFA. Or something.
- One or two GNAA trolls (seem to be a dying breed, yay)
- One page widening troll (oh wait, he hasn't shown up lately)
Correct me, mod me, flame me, whip me, beat me. It's all good, you just aren't that important. Should you post something funny/insightful, I might give a shit.what about that t-shirt i got from think geek a while back? should i be nervous? ;)
R.I.P.
Right, because you know, since property and trade secrets rights are guaranteed in the Zeroth Amendment to the Bill Of Rights, they outrank the First Amendment, don't they?
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
nope, all ok so far.
your turn: go out into a major city with a broomstick in your hands and shout "allah is great! allah is great" and see how long you last.
Your sig seems oddly a propos...
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
extract it with:
:o)
#!/usr/bin/perl
Anyone else see the irony in using Perl to make something less obfuscated?
A better solution would be to write in complete sentences.
your turn: go out into a major city with a broomstick in your hands and shout "allah is great! allah is great" and see how long you last.
A lot longer than someone preaching Christianity in Mecca.
you're in some kind of trouble now.
This number was patented I believe.
Sad answer to the rhetorical question...
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
where does the input .vob file get inserted here?
ThinkGeek sold out of DeCSS t-shirts today.
Eat This:
$ c=142;$ t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(1 1,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])$t^=(72, @z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%162 :0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if ((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h@ b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$ h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$| (ord$b[4])>8^($f=$t&($d>>12^ $d>>4^^ $q>=8)+= $f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/p ack+/g;eval
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 531-byte qrpff-fast, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin -> descrambled output on stdout
# arguments: title key bytes in least to most-significant order
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;
$m=(11,10,116,100,
-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?1
=5;$_=unxb24,join"",
d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256
$d^$d/8))>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8
Privilegde is a spelling error!
grib.
maybe
Don't host it on a website.. in the US.
There are plenty of other countries that don't have such a crazy legal system.
Which only lasts until America decides to "liberate" the country...
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating