“A Sydney man is one of more than 70 defendants named in a
restraining order to cease distribution of a controversial DVD
security crack, which permits unfettered copying of DVD movie
disks, filed in a Californian Superior Court today…”
“Others named in the order include hacker community website,
2600.org, and influential IT news site, Slashdot.org. Slashdot’s
parent, Andover.net, two weeks ago had a stunning stock market
debut, listing to a market capitalisation of more than $US1
billion…”
“MoRE created the software hack to enable the playing of DVD
movies on platforms that mainstream software companies had ignored,
such as the open source Linux.”