Finnish Appeals Court Rules Breaking CSS Illegal

Thomas Nybergh writes "Due to an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, breaking the not-very-effective CSS copy protection used on most commercial DVD-Video discs is now a criminal act in Finland (robo translated). The verdict is contrary to what a district court thought of the same case last year when two local electronic rights activists were declared not guilty after having framed themselves by spreading information on how to break CSS. Back then, it was to the activists' benefit has CSS been badly broken and inneffective ever since DeCSS came out."

Comments

Oh, that CSS

[langelgjm]

For a moment there, I shook my head at the idea of the courts getting involved in webpage layout.

Re:Oh, that CSS

[PinkyDead]

...for a moment there, my heart leapt at the possibility of Bill Gates getting sent to jail for crimes against conformity.

Re:Oh, that CSS

[switchfutguy]

i knew some people were intense about WC3 validation, but this is a bit much

Re:Oh, that CSS

[clarkcox3]

Blizzard get's pretty upset when Warcraft III's online component gets cracked.

Re:Oh, that CSS

[kylehase]

Yea I thought I'd have to uninstall Greasemonkey.

HTML/CSS?

[Anonymous Coward]

At first I thought this meant the CSS in HTML/CSS and thought "Yes, finally Microsoft cant mess around with IEs rendering anymore."

Re:So the quality of security matters not, then?

[Aetuneo]

This post in encrypted with rot-26. If you are able to read this text, you have violated the law by circumventing the encryption.

Sorry, it had to be said.

Re:Live by the golden rule

[TheP4st]

Wow... With your flawless logic and profound argumentation you have succeeded in turning me into a RIAA supporter for life.