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"Does fair use entitle the scholar, reporter or others to gain access to the copyrighted work in the first place? It's at the heart of a closely-watched copyright and First Amendment case winding its way through the federal appeals maze." By Car

• Stop wearing our code - Article in ZDnet about a geek-chic retailer who digital rights management printed the source code for a DVD decryption digital rights management program on T-shirts, and resulting lawsuit.
• White House Sides With Studios - "The Bush administration is siding with Hollywood in articles a federal articles lawsuit against a DVD-descrambling utility." By articles Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Hollywood's War on Open Source - "Other News "Matthew dvd encryption Pavlovich dvd encryption arrived home from a Caribbean cruise with dvd encryption his parents dvd encryption and grandparents over the holidays to dvd encryption discover he was dvd encryption a wanted man." By Lisa dvd encryption Bowman. [ZDNet]
• Hollywood to Home Viewer: We Own You - "Last Thursday, a judge in New York City digital rights management dvd encryption ruled that an obscure magazine called 2600, based digital rights management dvd encryption in Middle Island, N.Y., can\\'t post an equally digital rights management dvd encryption obscure program, DeCSS, on its Web site, or digital rights management dvd encryption link to other sites that offer it." By digital rights management dvd encryption Rob Pegoraro. [Washington
• Copyright Law Foes Lose Big - "On Wednesday, with a pair of federal courts digital rights management siding with the music and record industry, the digital rights management Electronic Frontier Foundation lost two of its most digital rights management important intellectual property cases so far." By Declan digital rights management McCullagh. [Wired]
• Judges Seek Answers on Computer Code as Free Speech - "In what may signal a heightened significance for digital rights management articles a case testing the constitutionality of a 1998 digital rights management articles digital copyright law, a panel of appeals court digital rights management articles judges has asked both sides of a case digital rights management articles to answer a list of 11 questions on digital rights management articles whether computer code can quali
• A Constitutional Right to Decode? - "To the movies studios trying to rid the digital rights management Net of a DVD-descrambling program, the \\'DeCSS\\' utility digital rights management is akin to terrorware that governments have a digital rights management responsibility to prohibit." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities - "The authorities responsible for investigating economic crime in dvd encryption Norway articles today (after 2 years of \\'investigation\\') charged dvd encryption JLJ for articles violating a law regarding computer \\'break-ins\\', dvd encryption commonly known as articles the \'hacker paragraph\'. This is dvd encryption for distributing the De
• US Courts Kowtow to Entertainment Industry - News of DeCSS linking case upheld on appeal and the articles dismissal of Felten v. RIAA. By Thomas C. Greene. [Register]
• DMCA 2, Freedom 0 - "2600 is reporting that they\\'ve lost their Appeal dvd encryption in dvd encryption the 2nd Circuit court." News and discussion dvd encryption forum. [Slashdot]
• Victory for DVD Code Cracking - "A California State Appeals Court ruled on Thursday articles that computer articles code used to \\'descramble\\' DVDs is articles \\'pure speech,\\' and citing articles the First Amendment, the articles court reversed a trial court\\'s order articles to block articles the code from appearing on the Web." By articles articles Farhad M
• Copyright: Your Right or Theirs? - "The EFF will argue consumer rights are being articles slowly eroded with the help of a law articles meant to build up content distribution on the articles Internet, as the organization hopes to overturn an articles injunction against 2600 Magazine." By Brad King. [Wired]
• World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number - "Mathematician Phil Carmody, who in March of this dvd encryption year digital rights management managed to encode the DeCSS source in dvd encryption a prime digital rights management number, has upped the ante by dvd encryption producing a prime digital rights management number which represents an executable dvd encryption version of the banned digital rights management CSS descrambler." By Thomas dvd encryption C. Green
• Descramble That DVD in 7 Lines - "A new, slimmed-down version of DVD descrambling now articles exists: a mere seven lines of Perl code. articles It\\'s so lean, you too can attach it articles to your e-mail signature file." By Declan McCullagh. articles [Wired]
• Criminal Code? - "A judge\\'s decision to ban a DVD-playing Linux program and all discussion about it outrages the free-software community." By C. Scott Ananian. [Salon]
• 2600 DMCA Appeal Lost - 2600 Magazine announces they lost their appeal to the 2nd articles Circuit Court. Includes text of decision. [2600]
• Movie Industry Dealt DVD-cracking Blow - "A California court has dealt a potentially serious digital rights management dvd encryption setback to the movie industry\\'s attempt to rid digital rights management dvd encryption the online world of software that can help digital rights management dvd encryption break through copy protections on DVDs." By John digital rights management dvd encryption Borland. [ZDNet]
• Movie Industry Wins a Round in DVD Copyright Case - "A federal judge in Manhattan ruled today that dvd encryption a Web site operator cannot distribute a computer dvd encryption program used to crack codes that prevent the dvd encryption piracy of movies." By John Sullivan. [New York dvd encryption Times]
• DeCSS Allies Ganging Up - "A federal court decision that restricted a DVD-descrambling program ignores articles free speech rights and should be overturned, eight different coalitions articles claim." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• DeCSS Judge: Code Isn't Free Speech - "MPAA president Jack Valenti cheers the decision. Next articles stop: Appeals court." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
• BBC News - Legal Victory for 'DVD Hacker' - An appeals court clears a Norwegian man of DVD piracy charges brought against him by the US movie industry.
• DeCSS Decoy - "A free-software fanatic unleashes a \\'useless\\' program to foil investigators looking for the DeCSS DVD decryption code." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
• Nothing Says Free Speech like Posting DVD-hacking Code - "A diverse group of computer scientists, journalists and articles librarians is asking a federal appeals court to articles overturn a ruling that prevents people from posting articles or linking to the code that can help articles crack DVD encryption." By Stefanie Olsen. [ZDNet]
• DVD Hacker to Keep Challenging Ruling - Article about Eric Corley appealing the ruling in dvd encryption the DeCSS linking case. [Reuters]
• Can Hyperlinks Be Outlawed? - "Movie studios aim to criminalize links to DeCSS, articles a banned DVD-decryption program." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
• DeCSS Down Under - "A U.S. ban on the DVD-decrypting code is only egging on Australian hackers -- and an odd songwriter." By Damien Cave. [Salon]
• DVD Piracy Judges Resolute - "A trio of federal judges lobbed sharp questions on Tuesday at a law school dean who argued it should be legal to distribute a DVD-descrambling utility." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Judges Weigh Copyright Suit on Unlocking DVD Shield - "A lawyer for the Web magazine 2600 urged a federal appeals court in Manhattan yesterday to find unconstitutional a 1998 law that seeks to limit the unauthorized copying of digitized material." By Amy Harmon. [New York Times] [Free registration
• DVD Cracking Case, Western Style - "The two-pronged, bi-coastal legal war being waged against individuals who have distributed a code that can circumvent encryption on DVDs now focuses on First Amendment issues being raised in San Jose." By Brad King. [Wired]
• U.S.: DVD Decoder is Terrorware - "To the U.S. government, a DVD descrambling utility digital rights management dvd encryption is akin to terrorware that could crash airplanes, digital rights management dvd encryption disrupt hospital equipment and imperil human lives." By digital rights management dvd encryption Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• SecurityFocus - DeCSS Creator Indicted in Norway - Norwegian prosecutors have indicted Jon Johansen for his dvd encryption role in creating the DeCSS program that unlocked dvd encryption a DVD copy protection system and unleashed a dvd encryption series of lawsuits by the motion picture industry.
• Does an Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment? - "Does fair use entitle the scholar, reporter or digital rights management others to gain access to the copyrighted work digital rights management in the first place? It\\'s at the heart digital rights management of a closely-watched copyright and First Amendment case digital rights management winding its way through the federal appeals maze." digital rights management By Car
• Movie Industry Frowns on Professor's Software Gallery - "His site is a gallery devoted to representations of a piece of software that has been deemed illegal because it can be used to break through the copy-protection system on DVD movies." By David F. Gallagher. [New York Times] [Free registration r
• DVD Group: Stop Wearing Our Code! - "A geek-chic retailer who printed the source code for a DVD decryption program on T-shirts is the latest target of a lawsuit claiming defendants co-opted the secrets behind DVD encryption." [ZDNet]
• Studios Score DeCSS Victory - "A DVD-descrambling program is akin to a virulent Internet epidemic that must be eradicated, a federal judge said Thursday as he agreed with Hollywood that DVDs must be protected from decryption and copying." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Hackers vs. Hollywood, the Sequel - "Music industry lawyers plan to tell a federal appeals court dvd encryption that a DVD-descrambling program is primarily useful to hackers and dvd encryption should be outlawed." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Web War Rages Over DVD Cracking Site - "In a move that free-speech activists hope will be trendsetting, Internet service provider Verio is standing up to the movie industry by refusing to remove a Web site the Motion Picture Association of America says is illegal." By Paul Somerson.

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