“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted an appeal
this week to reconsider a preliminary injunction granted against
more than seventy Webmasters accused of trade secrets infringement
for circulating a utility programme called DeCSS which cracks the
security coding of DVDs and enables users to watch them on
unauthorised viewers.”
“The free-speech advocacy group argues that the act of posting
the utility is constitutionally protected expression, not trade
secret infringement.”
“A key claim is that reverse engineering and decryption are
permitted under the fair use exceptions to US copyright and trade
secrets laws….“