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DVD Piracy Judge Tells All by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

2:00 a.m. Nov. 17, 2000 PST WASHINGTON -- U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan doesn't truly dislike hackers and open-source programmers, not exactly.

Kaplan, who sided with the motion picture industry in a landmark DVD-descrambling lawsuit this year, simply views them as lawless miscreants.

To Kaplan, a 56-year-old jurist who once represented Time Warner as a lawyer in private practice, the coders who crafted the DeCSS DVD-decrypting utility are "what might be called cyber-freedom fighters, or perhaps cyber-anarchists."

In August, Kaplan ruled that the DeCSS Windows program violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and compared the spread of the application to a "common-source outbreak epidemic."

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"Little did I know, when I was scribbling away, that (the) decision would receive so much attention," Kaplan said Thursday afternoon at a "Beyond Napster" symposium organized by American University's Washington College of Law.

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