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The Register: Mythology dominates MPAA strategy in DVD trial

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 25, 2000

“The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) suit
against three New York Webmasters who made available for download
the controversial DeCSS utility
which defeats the CSS
encryption scheme on DVDs appears to be founded on a queer
blend of statistical rot and hacking hysteria, not to mention a few
outright lies.”

“Among the more transparent stretchers to which the MPAA has
been clinging is a claim that DeCSS is flooding the Internet with
pirated DVDs. Among the more outrageous is a claim that decrypted
DVDs are now being sold in hard copies.”

“The lie here is one of omission; it simply is not necessary to
decrypt CSS to make a hard copy or ten thousand of a DVD, so the
existence of such copies in no way indicates prior use of the DeCSS
utility, as every rocket scientist and his lowbrow deaf-mute
assistant well knows.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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