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MPAA Court of Appeals Brief

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We offer the Proskauer Rose MPAA Court of Appeals brief with 47 footnotes (the MPAA-site version omits footnotes):

http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bpa.htm (138KB)

A footnote:

28 Although several of Corley's amici from the field of cryptography, including cryptographer Bruce Schneier, criticize the scope of the encryption research exemption of the DMCA, § 1201(g), ironically, even Mr. Schneier has voiced strong personal opposition to the public dissemination of "exploits" (i.e., computer programs "that make[] use of a vulnerability to attack a system" (A1056)), like DeCSS, stating that "I believe that it is irresponsible, and possibly criminal, to distribute exploits. Reverse-engineering security systems, discovering vulnerabilities, and writing research papers about them benefits research; it makes us smarter at designing secure systems. Distributing exploits just make [sic] us more vulnerable. . . Handing computer weaponry to clueless teenagers is part of the problem." See Bruce Schneier, Publicizing Vulnerabilities, Crypto-Gram, Feb. 15, 2000 (available at http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0002.html).

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