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[FYI] DVD Hackers Headed to Court?
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- Subject: [FYI] DVD Hackers Headed to Court?
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- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:03:38 +0200
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[Da hamwer den Salat! Die ganze "Ruehr-die-Kopierschutzvorrichtungen-
nicht-an"-Legislation zeigt sich hier von einer Seite, vor der von
Anfang an gewarnt worden ist: Die Insustrie bringt technisch
*saumiserabel* konstruierte Kopierschutzmechanismen in den Handel und
erwartet vom Gesetzgeber, dass er weitraumig um diese Krypto-Kruecken
herum mit jurologischer Hochspannung aufgeladene Schutzzaeune
aufstellt, die die technisch versierten Leute davon abhalten sollen,
das zu tun, was offesichtlich und technisch naheliegend ist. Da dazu
kaum noch Spezialkenntnisse und -Geraete erforderlich sind, wird nun
Justitia lauthals um Hilfe gerufen, man moege doch bitte die
Schutzzaeune so weitlaeufig um den Kopierschutz herumziehen, dass das
ganze boese Internet und auch alle Leute, die auch nur wissen, wie
man "reverse engineering" buchstabiert, von der Buehne gejagt werden.
Diese Kopierschutz-Gesetze sind "flawed by design"! -AHH]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32449,00.html
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DVD Hackers Headed to Court?
by Declan McCullagh
3:00 a.m. 10.Nov.1999 PST
If there's one thing entertainment industry lawyers don't like, it's
someone copying CDs or DVDs.
But what they really, truly detest are the upstart hackers who
discovered how to copy DVD films -- and had the temerity to
distribute a program that does just that.
Also: Why the DVD Hack Was a Cinch DVD Piracy: It Can Be Done Read
ongoing Linux coverage
Motion picture industry lawyers have reportedly contacted at least
two programmers involved in developing the DeCSS utility and asked
them to delete information from their Web sites.
One of the members of the Norwegian group "Masters of Reverse
Engineering" said an Oslo attorney from Simonsen and Musæus,
representing the movie industry, has demanded that he remove a link
to DeCSS from his Web site.
[...]
Fawcus wrote in a message last Friday that "the legal side has
started" and said that he had been accused of violating a 1998 UK
copyright act.
That law restricts anyone who "publishes information intended to
enable or assist persons to circumvent that form of copy protection."
[...]
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