“Continuing its California courtroom battle against the Digital
Video Disk (DVD) industry over DVD encryption codes, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation has appealed an injunction granted
against more than 50 Web site operators in January.”
“… the group is seeking the immediate removal of the
injunction, primarily on First Amendment grounds, while continuing
to fight the larger case, EFF spokesperson Tom McGuire told
Newsbytes today.”
“In its brief filed against the DVD-CCA complaint, the EFF
wrote, “In this case, (the) plaintiff seeks an injunction of
unprecedented breadth and intrusiveness on traditional free speech
rights in order to defend a supposed trade secret that was never
very secret at all. (The) plaintiff seeks prior restraint against
hundreds of news sources on the Internet, claiming the right to
enjoin discussion of their Content Scrambling System (CSS). That
discussion centered on the results of efforts to break the weak
security structures on which the CSS depends.””