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An appeals court clears a Norwegian man of DVD piracy charges brought against him by the US movie
industry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3341211.stm
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Stop wearing our code
Article in ZDnet about a geek-chic retailer who printed the source code for a DVD decryption
program on T-shirts, and resulting lawsuit.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-522652.html?legacy=zdnn&chkpt=zdhpnews01
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Free Speech Shrinking on the Net?
Article in ZDnet provides information about decisions in two lawsuits that tested controversial
copyright legislation.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-276421.html
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DeCSS Ban Upheld by Court
"A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an order that prohibits publishing or linking to
DVD-cracking code--a decision with sweeping significance for free-speech rights and copyright
protection on the Internet." By Evan Hansen. [ZDNet]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-276353.html
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Hollywood's War on Open Source
"Other News "Matthew Pavlovich arrived home from a Caribbean cruise with his parents
and grandparents over the holidays to discover he was a wanted man." By Lisa Bowman. [ZDNet]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-502010.html
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DVD Group: Stop Wearing Our Code!
"A geek-chic retailer who printed the source code for a DVD decryption program on T-shirts is
the latest target of a lawsuit claiming defendants co-opted the secrets behind DVD
encryption." [ZDNet]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-522650.html
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Web War Rages Over DVD Cracking Site
"In a move that free-speech activists hope will be trendsetting, Internet service provider
Verio is standing up to the movie industry by refusing to remove a Web site the Motion Picture
Association of America says is illegal." By Paul Somerson. [ZDNet]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-527514.html
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DVD Hacker to Keep Challenging Ruling
Article about Eric Corley appealing the ruling in the DeCSS linking case. [Reuters]
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-826710.html
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Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities
"The authorities responsible for investigating economic crime in Norway today (after 2 years
of 'investigation') charged JLJ for violating a law regarding computer 'break-ins', commonly known
as the 'hacker paragraph'. This is for distributing the DeCSS sourcecode." News and forum
discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1433237
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Nothing Says Free Speech like Posting DVD-hacking Code
"A diverse group of computer scientists, journalists and librarians is asking a federal
appeals court to overturn a ruling that prevents people from posting or linking to the code that
can help crack DVD encryption." By Stefanie Olsen. [ZDNet]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-527615.html
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DMCA 2, Freedom 0
"2600 is reporting that they've lost their Appeal in the 2nd Circuit court." News and
discussion forum. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/29/001234&mode=nested
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SecurityFocus - DeCSS Creator Indicted in Norway
Norwegian prosecutors have indicted Jon Johansen for his role in creating the DeCSS program that
unlocked a DVD copy protection system and unleashed a series of lawsuits by the motion picture
industry.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/306/
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Copyright Law Foes Lose Big
"On Wednesday, with a pair of federal courts siding with the music and record industry, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation lost two of its most important intellectual property cases so
far." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48726,00.html
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US Courts Kowtow to Entertainment Industry
News of DeCSS linking case upheld on appeal and the dismissal of Felten v. RIAA. By Thomas C.
Greene. [Register]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23084.html
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2600 DMCA Appeal Lost
2600 Magazine announces they lost their appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court. Includes text of decision.
[2600]
http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=852
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Movie Industry Wins a Round in DVD Copyright Case
"A federal judge in Manhattan ruled today that a Web site operator cannot distribute a
computer program used to crack codes that prevent the piracy of movies." By John Sullivan.
[New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/18dvd.html
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Movie Industry Dealt DVD-cracking Blow
"A California court has dealt a potentially serious setback to the movie industry's attempt to
rid the online world of software that can help break through copy protections on DVDs." By
John Borland. [ZDNet]
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099131,00.html
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World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number
"Mathematician Phil Carmody, who in March of this year managed to encode the DeCSS source in a
prime number, has upped the ante by producing a prime number which represents an executable version
of the banned CSS descrambler." By Thomas C. Greene. [Register]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21591.html
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Studios Score DeCSS Victory
"A DVD-descrambling program is akin to a virulent Internet epidemic that must be eradicated, a
federal judge said Thursday as he agreed with Hollywood that DVDs must be protected from decryption
and copying." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38287,00.html
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Hollywood to Home Viewer: We Own You
"Last Thursday, a judge in New York City ruled that an obscure magazine called 2600, based in
Middle Island, N.Y., can't post an equally obscure program, DeCSS, on its Web site, or link to
other sites that offer it." By Rob Pegoraro. [Washington Post]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A19743-2000Aug24
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Descramble That DVD in 7 Lines
"A new, slimmed-down version of DVD descrambling now exists: a mere seven lines of Perl code.
It's so lean, you too can attach it to your e-mail signature file." By Declan McCullagh.
[Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42259,00.html
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Judges Seek Answers on Computer Code as Free Speech
"In what may signal a heightened significance for a case testing the constitutionality of a
1998 digital copyright law, a panel of appeals court judges has asked both sides of a case to
answer a list of 11 questions on whether computer code can qualify as free speech." By Amy
Harmon. [New York Times] [Free registration required.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CODE.html
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Judges Weigh Copyright Suit on Unlocking DVD Shield
"A lawyer for the Web magazine 2600 urged a federal appeals court in Manhattan yesterday to
find unconstitutional a 1998 law that seeks to limit the unauthorized copying of digitized
material." By Amy Harmon. [New York Times] [Free registration required.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/02/technology/02CODE.html
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Movie Industry Frowns on Professor's Software Gallery
"His site is a gallery devoted to representations of a piece of software that has been deemed
illegal because it can be used to break through the copy-protection system on DVD movies." By
David F. Gallagher. [New York Times] [Free registration required.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/technology/30CYBERLAW.html
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DeCSS Allies Ganging Up
"A federal court decision that restricted a DVD-descrambling program ignores free speech
rights and should be overturned, eight different coalitions claim." By Declan McCullagh.
[Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41441,00.html
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DeCSS Decoy
"A free-software fanatic unleashes a 'useless' program to foil investigators looking for the
DeCSS DVD decryption code." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/02/22/decss/
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Can Hyperlinks Be Outlawed?
"Movie studios aim to criminalize links to DeCSS, a banned DVD-decryption program." By
Damien Cave. [Salon]
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/04/06/decss/
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DeCSS Judge: Code Isn't Free Speech
"MPAA president Jack Valenti cheers the decision. Next stop: Appeals court." By Damien
Cave. [Salon]
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/08/18/decss_trial/index.html
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DeCSS Down Under
"A U.S. ban on the DVD-decrypting code is only egging on Australian hackers -- and an odd
songwriter." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/09/01/decss_australia/
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Copyright: Your Right or Theirs?
"The EFF will argue consumer rights are being slowly eroded with the help of a law meant to
build up content distribution on the Internet, as the organization hopes to overturn an injunction
against 2600 Magazine." By Brad King. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41199,00.html
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White House Sides With Studios
"The Bush administration is siding with Hollywood in a federal lawsuit against a
DVD-descrambling utility." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41992,00.html
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Throwing the Book at DeCSS
"A federal appeals court panel heard arguments and responded with numerous questions about a
far-reaching case over the rights of online publishers to link to controversial material." By
Jim Hu and Lisa M. Bowman. [ZDNet]
http://www.zdnet.com/fcgi-bin/becky/ifc/RGROUP=r1936/CREATIVE=a70382
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Does an Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment?
"Does fair use entitle the scholar, reporter or others to gain access to the copyrighted work
in the first place? It's at the heart of a closely-watched copyright and First Amendment case
winding its way through the federal appeals maze." By Carl S. Kaplan. [New York Times] [Free
registration required.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/27/technology/27CYBERLAW.html
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Hackers vs. Hollywood, the Sequel
"Music industry lawyers plan to tell a federal appeals court that a DVD-descrambling program
is primarily useful to hackers and should be outlawed." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43450,00.html
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DVD Piracy Judges Resolute
"A trio of federal judges lobbed sharp questions on Tuesday at a law school dean who argued it
should be legal to distribute a DVD-descrambling utility." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43470,00.html
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U.S.: DVD Decoder is Terrorware
"To the U.S. government, a DVD descrambling utility is akin to terrorware that could crash
airplanes, disrupt hospital equipment and imperil human lives." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,43485,00.html
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A Constitutional Right to Decode?
"To the movies studios trying to rid the Net of a DVD-descrambling program, the 'DeCSS'
utility is akin to terrorware that governments have a responsibility to prohibit." By Declan
McCullagh. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,44183,00.html
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DVD Cracking Case, Western Style
"The two-pronged, bi-coastal legal war being waged against individuals who have distributed a
code that can circumvent encryption on DVDs now focuses on First Amendment issues being raised in
San Jose." By Brad King. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,46270,00.html
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Victory for DVD Code Cracking
"A California State Appeals Court ruled on Thursday that computer code used to 'descramble'
DVDs is 'pure speech,' and citing the First Amendment, the court reversed a trial court's order to
block the code from appearing on the Web." By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48075,00.html
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Criminal Code?
"A judge's decision to ban a DVD-playing Linux program and all discussion about it outrages
the free-software community." By C. Scott Ananian. [Salon]
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/02/09/linuxdvd/
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