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Judge Bars DVD Descrambling Software
News The film industry, worried that DVD movies might one day be easily duplicated and passed around, says it is trying to protect its copyrighted materials and its trade secrets. I want to visit the DVD Basement
[January 21, 2000, 14:58]
Court Upholds Ban On DVD-cracking Code
News A federal appeals 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 copyright protection on the Internet.
[November 29, 2001, 9:06]
First (legal) Software DVD Player For Linux
News To try and prevent distribution of the programme, Hollywood has been fiercely cracking down on hundreds of Web sites posting it, leading some to accuse it of perpetrating a war on open source technology.
[April 3, 2000, 11:19]
Arguments Presented In DVD Cracking Case
News California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called DVD-cracking software DeCSS a tool for "breaking, entering and stealing" during a hearing before the California Supreme Court on Thursday. During Thursday's hearing, DVD CCA attorney Robert Sugarman...
[May 30, 2003, 8:05]
Norway Piracy Case Brings Activists Hope
News The acquittal in Oslo, 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 intellectual-property holders seeking to exert more control over the digital versions of...
[January 9, 2003, 9:02]
Court Blocks DVD-cracking Suit
News The California Supreme Court handed Hollywood's antipiracy efforts a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. While a student at Indiana's Purdue University...
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
DVD-copying Case Heads For Court
News The position of the studios -- MGM Studios, TriStar Pictures, Columbia Pictures Industry, Time Warner Entertainment, Disney Enterprises, Universal City Studios and Saul Zaentz Company -- is that cracking DVD copy protections is illegal in nearly...
[May 15, 2003, 8:01]
US Judge Weighs DVD Copying Arguments
News In the 2600 case, an appellate court ordered the hacker magazine to stop posting or linking to DVD-cracking code. The judge in a closely watched US lawsuit challenging the legality of DVD-copying software said she was "substantially persuaded" by...
[May 16, 2003, 7:47]
US Court: Reverse Engineering Is 'presumptively Legal'
News A California appeals court on 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 free speech rights. The motion picture industry won a key decision...
[March 1, 2004, 10:40]
DVD Jon Seeks Compensation
News Jon Johansen of MoRE.had NOTHING to do with the actual cracking of the DVD CSS protection. A text file that is said to be distributed with the DeCSS software purports to be a joint statement from MoRE and another group, Drink or Die (DoD), refutes...
[January 28, 2004, 10:20]
Movie Makers Mull Future Of DVD
News So, the studios are watching -- and waiting.At this stage, we are assessing the matter," said Jerry Giaquinta, spokesperson for Sony Pictures, who emphasized that Sony intends "to fully protect our studios' copyrighted content.The encryption...
[November 5, 1999, 10:50]
Hollywood Targets DVD-copying Upstart
News In a major case cited in the studios' claim against 321, federal courts ruled that posting and linking to DVD-encryption cracking code known as DeCSS violated the DMCA. On Thursday, seven major movie studios filed a countersuit in federal court in...
[December 23, 2002, 8:51]
DVD Cracker Indicted For DeCSS Program
News Two years after police stormed into his home and seized his computer, a Norwegian teenager has been indicted on security cracking charges. Jon Johansen, who helped create software that makes it possible to crack DVD security, faces up to two years...
[January 11, 2002, 13:39]
'Operation Buccaneer' Nabs Suspected Pirate Ringleader
News The group specialised in "cracking" software by circumventing embedded copyright protections and distributing it via the Internet. See the Digital Rights News Section for the latest on copy protection, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and zoning.
[March 13, 2003, 8:27]
News Schmooze: Lamp-like IGadget Rings In The New Year
News On the other hand, 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 Hollywood movie studios. DVD cracker indicted for DeCSS program
[January 11, 2002, 16:37]
Norwegian Hacker Takes A Bite Out Of Apple's ITunes
News Jon Lech Johansen, the Norwegian hacker famous for cracking DVD encryption, has cracked Apple AirPort Express. In a double whammy for Apple, Johansen also wrote a program called JustePort - allowing software other than Apple iTunes to stream music...
[August 12, 2004, 16:35]
DeCSS Programmer Turns Attention To ITunes
News The Norwegian programmer who distributed the first widely used tool for cracking the copy protection technology found on DVDs has turned his attention to Apple Computer's iTunes. Johansen was sued in Norway for releasing the software, but a court...
[November 25, 2003, 8:35]
ITunes Music Store DRM Bypassed
News Joined by Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer responsible for distributing DVD-cracking code in late 1999, the programmers say their "PyMusique" software is a "fair" interface for iTunes, primarily aimed at allowing people who use the Linux...
[March 21, 2005, 9:10]
Russians To Be Tried Under DMCA
News The case stems from an investigation into charges that the company had created a product aimed at cracking the encryption on Adobe Systems' eBooks software. Wednesday's decision follows a similar decision from a federal appeals court last year...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
'DMCA On Steroids' Passed By EU
News On Tuesday the European Parliament passed controversial legislation aimed at cracking down on copyright pirates, ranging from DVD counterfeiters to illicit Viagra sellers online. Organisations such as the Business Software Alliance and the...
[March 10, 2004, 7:35]
