“In a move that free-speech activists hope will be trendsetting,
Internet service provider Verio is standing up to the movie
industry by refusing to remove a Web site the Motion Picture
Association of America says is illegal.”
“Many ISPs, especially smaller ones that don’t have large legal
departments, yank sites immediately after receiving threatening
letters from content providers to avoid liability. But Verio, a
unit of NTT Communications that hosts more than 400,000 Web sites,
is raising the bar for site closures by refusing to buckle under
MPAA pressure….”
“In an interview, Young said he didn’t post DeCSS but did put up
a now-sealed court document that contained the code for CSS, the
entertainment industry’s scrambling system that DeCSS is designed
to crack.”