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DVD CCA Drops Case; DeCSS Not a Trade Secret
jon787 writes "EFF is reporting that the DVD CCA is dismissing its case against Andrew Bunner. He was being prosecuted under California's trade secret laws for redistributing DeCSS. This means that the DVD CCA has finally conceded that CSS is no longer a secret, something the rest of us have known for a few years now."
SCO to go...
I had a sucky sig.
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Background: 28/M/Bi-Sexual; Owner of a Linux company; MBA Harvard 2003; B.S. Comp Sci MIT 2000
Now if we can only get the Beatles to finally admit that Paul is dead, then that will mean the two most important but worst-kept secrets in the world will have been revealed on one day.
apt-get install deathstar && deathstar alderaan && echo "You're far too trusting"
haven't gotten the damned t-shirt yet. 8(
Ok, thinkgeek here I come!
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
Let the mass pirating of DVDs begin!
...what?
Does this mean I can finally watch encrypted DVDs on Linux without having the fear of the FBI crashing through my windows?
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
Microsoft releases Office under the GPL Steve Ballmer wins Nobel Price in physics Former Enron executive Ken Lay goes to jail Duke Nukem Forever released
" so does this mean the varios linux distro's will be able to include a dvd player by default?"
Yep, as soon as we can find a DVD player in this damn spaghetti System V code.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
copyleft are finally going to send me my goddamned t-shirts?
To know that you know what you know, and that you do not know what you do not know, that is true wisdom. --Scooby Doo
I dunno about that, but you might find a serviceable 8-track player. Do those need decoding though?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
according to sco, that'd be your legally purchased DVD's on your illegal linux platform.
i can't wait for the ibm lawyers to finish with darl and friends. they'll make goatse.cx look like a cakewalk
vodka, straight up, thank you!
So I'm the "Bunner" in DVD CCA vs Bunner. If you could look in my out-box today, here's what you'd see:
Friends and family,
My fifteen minutes of fame are over. The DVD CCA is dropping their case against me. For those that don't remember, I was sued in late 1999 for posting the source code to a software DVD player on my web site. The plaintifs included Sony, MGM, Panasonic, Microsoft, Warner-Brothers, and most other corporations in either media or electronics.
Today, they gave up. They've withdrawn the case
without prejudice.
Reading between the lines that means that they finally realized they were going to lose and that even if they won, the "secrets" of playing a DVD have been pretty well documented for the public.
To celebrate the occassion, I've asked my lawyers to file a counter-suit alleging emotional anguish and seeking damages of one hundred billion trillion dollars.
-- Andrew