"DVD-copying code loses free speech shield"

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:29:47 -0400
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> Subject: news item: "DVD-copying code loses free speech shield"
> To: dave () farber net
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>      Censorship News
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> Title: DVD-copying code loses free speech shield
> URL: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5067665.html
> Time: 2003-08-25 15:01:23
> News site: News.com
> Description: The California Supreme Court has ruled that the First 
> Amendment does not extend to protection of computer code posted online, in 
> ruling against a Web publisher that had posted code for a program that 
> would decrypt the copy-protection mechanism on commercial DVDs.  The 
> software had been developed by Norwegian teenager Jon Johansen to enable 
> him to play DVDs on a Linux computer.
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