“Lawyers representing the DVD industry got caught in an
embarrassing gaffe when they filed a lawsuit and accidentally
publicized the computer code they wanted to keep secret.”
“The DVD Copy Control Association included its “trade secret”
source code in court documents, but forgot to ask the judge to seal
them from public scrutiny.”
“It may be a little late. The document is dated 13 January and
is widely available on the Web. The owner of one site that
placed the 140KB declaration online says over 21,000 people have
downloaded it so far.“