[ Thanks to David Trubatch for this
link. ]
“An underground market of pirated films is growing fast on
the Internet, with some experts saying illegal downloading could
top one million movies a day by the end of next year….“
“The case pits Hollywood’s biggest studios against computer
journalist, Eric Corley, the publisher of 2600
(http://www.2600.org), a top magazine and Web site of the computer
hacker underground. The studios say Corley has spread a utility
that allows digital video disks (DVDs) to be copied and transmitted
over the Web.”
“Corley allegedly publicized the existence of a software utility
known as Decode Content Scrambling System (DeCSS) and then posted
the underlying source code of the program on his Web site, allowing
other programmers to copy and use DeCSS.”