Web War Rages Over DVD-cracking Site
News DeCSS is a program that can crack the code protecting copyrighted DVDs, letting people copy or use content for legal or illegal uses. In a move that free-speech activists hope will be trendsetting, Internet service provider Verio is standing up to...
[January 25, 2001, 9:03]
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]
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]
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. California's high court is considering whether a ban on the...
[May 30, 2003, 8:05]
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]
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]
DVD Jon Seeks Compensation
News Jon Johansen of MoRE.had NOTHING to do with the actual cracking of the DVD CSS protection. Jon Lech Johansen, also known as "DVD-Jon", will seek compensation from the Norwegian government following his acquittal in an appellate court on charges...
[January 28, 2004, 10:20]
Stop Wearing Our DVD Code!
News Cracking the encryption can be the first step to turning a large DVD file into a much smaller MPEG-4 or DivX file. 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...
[August 2, 2000, 11:02]
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]
Hacker Attacks Music File Sharers
News Nopir.B is designed to look like a DVD-cracking program, to fool people looking for a program that will circumvent copy-restriction technology on DVDs. A hacker has created a virus that targets music lovers by deleting MP3 files on infected computers.
[April 22, 2005, 13:20]
Free Speech Online Finding Limits
News In the most-watched case, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld restrictions on the online hacker magazine 2600, limiting its ability to post or link to the DeCSS program for cracking DVDs.
[November 30, 2001, 12:23]
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]
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]
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]
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]
HP ProLiant ML310 review
Reviews Cracking open the case is relatively easy, thanks to setscrews that you can twist with your fingers. Otherwise, you can choose a Celeron or Pentium 4 processor rated between 2.8GHz and 3.4GHz; up to 4GB of memory; from one to four 80GB to 250GB 7...
[June 24, 2005, 9:30]
DeCSS Code-crack Dispute Back In Court
News A panel of appellate judges will decide whether to uphold a lower court ruling preventing online hacker magazine 2600 from linking to code that theoretically could be used to crack DVD security. DeCSS was originally designed to let programmers...
[April 30, 2001, 9:36]
