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DeCSS Trade Secret Case Comes to an End - Again
Andrew Bunner writes "We asked the courts to rule on our appeal of the DeCSS preliminary injunction (even though the DVD CCA dropped the case) and... we won! No more preliminary injunction. Here's the official ruling (pdf)." This is the last gasp of this case, which we've been following for some years now. This ruling goes into some depth analyzing the trade secret claim, gets the ruling "right", and should be helpful in future cases on similar topics.
you must acquit!
that people can press Ctrl when they put their DRM-CDs in now?
Oh I've waited to press that key for sooo long.
Who would have thought a simple CSS remover would create such news ;)
Can I use Cascading Style Sheets on my websites now?
They have to drink from a spittoon?
It has to do with superstring theory and is really rather complicated, you're better off not knowing as the alternative leads to insanity.
a. fuck you
b. fuck you one more time for good measure
c. repeat
I have never appreciated this until I met a friend at work. Let's meet "Nikki". She's 21, works in the seafood department of a crappy grocery store (and #%$! makes more money than I do as a cashier) and makes a lot of money on the side selling all of us at work pirated DVD's. This is a Good Thing. She said, when she doesn't make rent, she burns DVD's for kids. What she used to do in the past was buy alcohol for kids under 21.
Simply put, by supporting CSS, you support underage drinking.
Mod "Overrated" instead of replying "I disagree with you," you coward.
that debian distros will now be able to include working DVD players?
(Donning my asbestos underwear)
No. First, Debian distros need to work.
You just wanted to write (i.e. IE), didn't you?
Of course, and that's not what this decision was about. This was about *De*CSS, which means that you can now *remove* the style sheets from your website.
I bet there are a lot of web sites where people tried style sheets once but then realized it was illegal to remove them.
can i touch you?
Hopkins & Carley, Arthur V. Plank,
Allonn E. Levy, San Jose;
First Amendment Project, Oakland,
James R. Wheaton, David A. Greene;
Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser,
Thomas E. Moore III, Palo Alto;
Electronic Frontier Foundation, San
Francisco, Cindy A. Cohn
You are now on the protected list.
According to Jack Valenti, if you want a backup of a DVD you bought, you buy another one.
That requires eyes. A few days ago a friend sent me this mp3 (dunno where he found it) You can *listen* to someone sing the decss code, and its not richard stallman style either! Check it out at http://macwhore.net/the_computer_code_hoedown_.mp3
Jisho - A Japanese English German Russian French Dictionary for the rest of us.
>Holy crap, what exactly *would* destroy trade
>secret status if posting to the internet doesn't
>do the job?
You've got to wait for it to be indexed by Google.
For a long time I have avoided buying CD's, DVD's, DVD players, or even DVD computer drives in protest to the RIAA, MPAA and related 'pigopolist' organisations and companies.
However I recently made the following resolve. In the event of Jack Valenti's death, I will celebrate by buying a decent quality DVD writer at the first available opportunity.
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I got it wrong.
...
So sue me.
Wait, I shouldn't have said that