“The defenders of DeCSS have taken another big hit — a
surprising one — in the case that has pitted open source advocates
against the DVD and motion picture industry.”
“Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William J. Elfving issued a
preliminary injunction Friday ordering 21 defendants to stop
posting code that breaks through the security software of DVDs to
their Web sites….”
“Friday’s ruling could set the tone for the course of the
lawsuit filed in December by the DVD Copy Control Association
against 21 named and 72 unnamed hackers and Internet authors who
published DeCSS. Though the original author of the software is
still in question, the program was originally made available by a
15-year-old Norwegian hacker on the Web in October.”