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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."
First, you can't decide which president you want. Now, you can't even put a simple outdated code on your website... Home of brave! Land of the just!
-- Eduardo B. Fonseca
SHEENmaster is such a fucking stupid nick. Grow up dork!
Not on the internet, Eurotrash.
You are an idiot. The vast majority of people on the internet who actually do stuff like visiting websites are in the U.S.
I suggest you run a major website and look at the logs before you open your trap again.
The only thing foolish is that list of remarks of yours!
Way to not wait for someone else to look like a fool first, you had to jump into the fool pool with both feet!
In fact if nothing else it has been over already for billions of nanoseconds. It may not be over for a month, or a year but geeze, at least get a grip on the usage of time!