geek speaks on CSS-descrambling leak

Les Schaffer godzilla at netmeg.net
Wed Sep 13 11:43:08 PDT 2000


a quite interesting and amusing page devoted to the legal issues surrounding the sharing of source code for CSS descramblers, a la for linux DVD players:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/

see also links to:

http://eon.law.harvard.edu/archive/dvd-discuss/msg08136.html

http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/Legal/960726_filing/appel.decl http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/Legal/960726_filing/HTML/abelson_decl.html

;-0))))))))))))) don't download unless you like hearing pseudo-code

sung to music

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/css_descramble_joe_wecker.mp3 ;-))))))))))))))

and just out:

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/09/13/touretzky/index.html

==========from slashdot.org ====== MP3.com Nixes Decss.mp3

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 13, @09:27AM from the lyrics-ain't-speech-either-now dept. adric writes: "It seems that MP3.com has removed decss.mp3 (but its still available), allegedly for having "offensive lyrics". You can read a bit more here. The best part is the gallery of DeCSS showing the world of clever places this little bit of code has migrated to. T-Shirts, songs, poetry, non-existent languages, PNG comments, embedded in jpgs, gifs, and more. Even if the MPAA's lawyers can make source code illegal, they'll never remove DeCSS from the Net. Can everyone please just drop this now and let us have Linux drivers (and for that matter, let us fast forward through commercials on DVDs!) ==================

les schaffer



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