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Judge bars DVD descrambling software

Federal judge bans three New York programmers from posting DVD-cracking program. But that's just the tip of the iceberg Read more

21 January, 2000 by ZDNet

DVD Jon seeks compensation

Following a series of court battles, the Norwegian hacker is set to seek a payout from the government Read more

28 January, 2004 by Patrick Gray

DVD cracker indicted for DeCSS program

The indictment marks the first time Norwegain law has been used to pursue someone for breaking into material he already owns Read more

11 January, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Arguments presented in DVD cracking case

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called DVD-cracking software DeCSS a tool for "breaking, entering and stealing" during a... Read more

30 May, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Court blocks DVD-cracking suit

...a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. The ruling... Read more

26 November, 2002 by John Borland

Court upholds ban on DVD-cracking code

...court on Wednesday upheld an order that prohibits publishing or linking to DVD-cracking code -- a decision with sweeping significance for free speech rights and... Read more

29 November, 2001 by Evan Hansen

Web war rages over DVD-cracking site

ISP Verio stands fast against pressure from Tinseltown, refuses to remove Web site the Motion Picture Association of America says is illegal Read more

25 January, 2001 by Lisa M Bowman

DeCSS banned again

...disappointed by an appeal court ruling that continues the ban on posting DVD-cracking code Read more

20 May, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Stop wearing our DVD code!

Copyleft, the maker of a T-shirt displaying code to a DVD-cracking program, is added to a high-profile piracy lawsuit Read more

2 August, 2000 by Robert Lemos

Hacker attacks music file sharers

...company Sophos on Friday. Nopir.B is designed to look like a DVD-cracking program, to fool people looking for a program that will circumvent... Read more

22 April, 2005 by Dan Ilet

iTunes Music Store DRM bypassed

...DRM features. Joined by Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer responsible for distributing DVD-cracking code in late 1999, the programmers say their "PyMusique" software is... Read more

21 March, 2005 by John Borland

US court: Reverse engineering is 'presumptively legal'

...Friday reversed a four-year-old order barring the publication of a DVD-cracking tool on the Internet, finding the injunction violated the defendant's... Read more

1 March, 2004 by Evan Hansen

US judge weighs DVD copying arguments

...appellate court ordered the hacker magazine to stop posting or linking to DVD-cracking code. In ElcomSoft, a jury acquitted a Russian software company of... Read more

16 May, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Norway piracy case brings activists hope

...Norway, of 19-year-old Johansen, one of the creators of the DVD-cracking code known as DeCSS, is one of several recent setbacks for... Read more

9 January, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

News Schmooze: Lamp-like iGadget rings in the new year

...must be cowering in fear after the guy who created DeCSS, the DVD cracking software, was indicted in Norway at the behest of Hollywood movie... Read more

11 January, 2002 by ZDNet UK

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