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Wired: DVD Round 1 Goes to Hackers

[ Thanks to Ian Kluft
for this link. ]

“In a lawsuit that accuses 72 Web site owners of posting — or
linking to — illegal DVD software code, Santa Clara County
Superior Court Judge William J. Elfving declined the DVD Copy
Control Association’s request for a temporary restraining order on
Wednesday.”

“The judge’s decision came after attorneys for both sides argued
in a packed courtroom over the temporary restraining order, which
would have forced individuals and Web sites named in the suit to
remove the code from the sites.

“The allegedly illicit code is compiled into the software
utility DeCSS.”

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story
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