“A California court has temporarily barred numerous
individuals and Web sites from posting online a program that
disables the security on DVD movies.“
“The lawsuit was filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court in
California by the DVD Copy Control Association, which includes the
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Business Software
Alliance and the Electronic Industries Alliance. The association
licenses out the DVD Content Scrambling System–a technology used
by all major U.S. movie studios to prevent the piracy of DVD
versions of hundreds of copyrighted works….”
“But the defendants in the suit, who are being represented by
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, say the DeCSS program is
intended to make DVD movies compatible with the Linux operating
system, not to create pirated copies of movies.”