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DeCSS code-crack dispute back in court

...and a hacker publication will head back into court Tuesday in the DeCSS case, a legal dispute that could dictate whether it's legal to... Read more

30 April, 2001 by Lisa M Bowman

US praises DeCSS non-publication decision

...ruling that bans hacker magazine 2600 from publishing a code known as DeCSS. "Despite defendants' efforts to pitch this case as a classic story of... Read more

23 February, 2001 by Lisa M Bowman

DeCSS case runs into California roadblock

...very lifeblood. The suits target open-source Linux computer code known as DeCSS that defeats the security software on DVD-formatted movies. The code was... Read more

18 December, 2000 by Evan Hansen

DeCSS programmer turns attention to iTunes

...the copy locks as a challenge. The Norwegian's 1999 program, called DeCSS, ignited a debate over the legality of copying DVDs that has yet... Read more

25 November, 2003 by John Borland

Supreme Court backs off DVD case

...The effect is that Pavlovich is no longer barred from distributing the DeCSS descrambling utility by a court order, but he could be sued again... Read more

6 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Alleged DeCSS hacker faces two years

...became an Internet icon three years ago after he co-authored the DeCSS utility that unwraps the copy protection found on DVDs, known as Content... Read more

10 December, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Court blocks DVD-cracking suit

...Monday, deals with just one part of Hollywood's multifaceted attack on DeCSS, a controversial bit of computer code that can assist in the copying... Read more

26 November, 2002 by John Borland

DeCSS banned again

...that prohibits the publication from posting or linking to code known as DeCSS. The ruling, issued last week, is another blow to the efforts of... Read more

20 May, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

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

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

11 January, 2002 by ZDNet UK

DVD cracker indicted for DeCSS program

...has been helping Johansen navigate the legal quagmire created since his program, DeCSS, first raised the ire of movie studios. Hollywood feared the program would... Read more

11 January, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Court upholds ban on DVD-cracking code

...its publisher, Eric Corley, from posting links to computer code known as DeCSS -- a program that allows DVD movies to be decoded and played on... Read more

29 November, 2001 by Evan Hansen

Cheesed off cracker strikes again

...by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) against the creator of DeCSS, a program for de-coding and copying DVD movies. The MPAA recently... Read more

12 September, 2000 by Will Knight

Entertainment execs: Learning to live with piracy

...publisher of the Web site 2600 for posting source code to the DeCSS utility that lets people copy DVDs and send them across the Web... Read more

3 August, 2000 by Charles Cooper

UK developer quits DVD decrypting

...aquitted on charges related to alleged copyright violation after he created the DeCSS de-scrambling program. Aldershoff said another group of developers had retreated to... Read more

6 June, 2005 by Matt Loney

iTunes DRM-free backdoor reopened

...be prosecuted [or] sued." Johansen was prosecuted in Norway for releasing the DeCSS code in 1999, but was ultimately cleared of charges. An Apple representative... Read more

23 March, 2005 by John Borland

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