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2600 withdraws DeCSS appeal

4 July 2002 22:54 by Jari Ketola | 2 comments

The hacker magazine 2600 will withdraw it's appeal to the Supreme Court since they see the chances of them winning the right to post the DeCSS code were rather slim. They see they have made their point and cannot take the case any farther.

2600 was sued by eight motion picture studios in December 1999 for publishing the source code of the DeCSS software and linking to other sites providing DeCSS downloads.

DeCSS is a tool developed by Norwegian Jon Johansen for viewing DVD movies with unofficial players. DeCSS has enabled computer users to view their DVD movies on alternative platforms, such as Linux, on which licensed, commercial DVD software is not available. On the other hand DeCSS also allowed users to decrypt and copy the content of DVD-Video discs on their computer hard drives for further processing.

DeCSS did not, actually, break the DVD encryption. Rather it relied on using a decryption key from a well known DVD-player software. The DVD license dictates that this key should always be encrypted. However in this case, it was not. The key has since been labeled "untrusted" and most DVD movies cannot be viewed with the old DeCSS.

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DVD CCA's boss testifies in Johansen's case (12 December 2002)

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EFF filed its briefs to Californian Supreme Court (23 May 2002)

Appeals court rejected 2600's request (17 May 2002)

Californian DeCSS case goes to Supreme Court (21 February 2002)

Appeals court rules in favor of studios in DeCSS case (29 November 2001)

FIRST VICTORY!: California Judge decides that posting DeCSS is legal (2 November 2001)

DeCSS puts free speech to a test (4 June 2001)

Twist in DeCSS case (11 May 2001)

Studios reiterate arguments in DeCSS case (22 February 2001)

EFF wants appeals court to reject the court order against 2600 (24 January 2001)

MPAA won the first round against 2600 (17 August 2000)

DeCSS final briefs on-line (9 August 2000)

DeCSS T-shirts sued (2 August 2000)

Free speech touted in DVD cracking case (8 May 2000)

DVD CCA Panic (26 January 2000)

DeCSS Author Arrested? (25 January 2000)

DeCSS distribution sites in court (14 January 2000)

DVD CCA Applies for Restraining Order (28 December 1999)

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Discuss this article!
Pio2001 (Moderator) 7 July 2002 13:23
What's this fuss about this obsolete program ? Everybody uses DeCSSPlus, now ! Pio2001 [ + quote]
dRD (I hate titles) 7 July 2002 14:05
Problem being the fact that now they (MPAA) will go after other sites that distribute similiar tools like SmartRipper, which is actually the one that everybody uses nowadays (or other vStrip/vobdec+ based tools). And check the right-hand nav bar's "top 3 software" on our site :-) Petteri Pyyny Webmaster http://AfterDawn.com/ [ + quote]