[ Thanks to Bryan
Taylor for this link. ]
“A university professor testified on Monday in New York Federal
Court that DeCSS, a program that decrypts the protections on
digital video disks will quickly lead to rampant copying of movies
— just as music is being copied and traded over Napster.”
“It is clear what is going on in the music industry is that
music files are being compressed and traded,” said Michael I.
Shamos, a professor of computer science and the director of the
Universal Library project at Carnegie Mellon University. “It is
completely clear to me that the same is being done with video that
is happening to music.”
“Shamos’ testimony is the first step toward proving that DeCSS
is a tool with the primary purpose, according to eight major movie
studios that are the plaintiffs in the case, of allowing people to
pirate their movies.”