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DeCSS Trade Secret Case Comes to an End - Again

Posted by michael on from the fat-lady-now-singing dept.

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.

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  1. Re:A friend came up with an amazing analogy... by pavon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Okay, I did not get the point of that story at all. Obviously some people did because it is moderated up so high, so could someone please explain it.

  2. 321studios by sumdumass · · Score: 2, Redundant

    I wonder if there would be anything of value here that 321 Studios, the makers of DVDXcopy could use in thier defense. It apears the ruling made what i think could be usefull especialy since they are going after them from the dmca standpoint. maybe the difference is the actual distrobution?

    On the other hand maybe this would open another can of worms and possibly alow another set of attacks on the Decss teknoligy?

  3. Obligatory SCO reference... by NewToNix · · Score: 0, Redundant

    One dumb court case down, SCO to go.