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"A judge's decision to ban a DVD-playing Linux program and all discussion about it outrages the free-software community." By C. Scott Ananian. [Salon]
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"A California State Appeals Court ruled on Thursday that computer code used to 'descramble' DVDs is 'pure speech,' and citing the First Amendment, the court reversed a trial court's order to block the code from appearing on the Web." By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired]
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DVD Cracking Case, Western Style
"The two-pronged, bi-coastal legal war being waged against individuals who have distributed a code that can circumvent encryption on DVDs now focuses on First Amendment issues being raised in San Jose." By Brad King. [Wired]
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A Constitutional Right to Decode?
"To the movies studios trying to rid the Net of a DVD-descrambling program, the 'DeCSS' utility is akin to terrorware that governments have a responsibility to prohibit." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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U.S.: DVD Decoder is Terrorware
"To the U.S. government, a DVD descrambling utility is akin to terrorware that could crash airplanes, disrupt hospital equipment and imperil human lives." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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"A trio of federal judges lobbed sharp questions on Tuesday at a law school dean who argued it should be legal to distribute a DVD-descrambling utility." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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Hackers vs. Hollywood, the Sequel
"Music industry lawyers plan to tell a federal appeals court that a DVD-descrambling program is primarily useful to hackers and should be outlawed." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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Does an Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment?
"Does fair use entitle the scholar, reporter or others to gain access to the copyrighted work in the first place? It's at the heart of a closely-watched copyright and First Amendment case winding its way through the federal appeals maze." By Carl S. Kaplan. [New York Times] [Free registration required.]
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White House Sides With Studios
"The Bush administration is siding with Hollywood in a federal lawsuit against a DVD-descrambling utility." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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Copyright: Your Right or Theirs?
"The EFF will argue consumer rights are being slowly eroded with the help of a law meant to build up content distribution on the Internet, as the organization hopes to overturn an injunction against 2600 Magazine." By Brad King. [Wired]
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"A U.S. ban on the DVD-decrypting code is only egging on Australian hackers -- and an odd songwriter." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
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DeCSS Judge: Code Isn't Free Speech
"MPAA president Jack Valenti cheers the decision. Next stop: Appeals court." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
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"Movie studios aim to criminalize links to DeCSS, a banned DVD-decryption program." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
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"A free-software fanatic unleashes a 'useless' program to foil investigators looking for the DeCSS DVD decryption code." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
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"A federal court decision that restricted a DVD-descrambling program ignores free speech rights and should be overturned, eight different coalitions claim." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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