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The Global Internet Liberty Campaign member statement opposing the efforts by the DVD-CAA to censor websites worldwide. Signed by more than fifty global civil liberties organizations.
http://www.gilc.org/speech/DVD-CSS.html
If DeCSS code is illegal in the USA, but text is protected, where do you draw the line? A gallery of exhibits of the descrambling algorithm from code through plain English to graphic images.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.
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DeCSS for Linux and DVD This web site is located at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Materials provided here are for purposes of education and research. Page owned by Dr. David S. Touretzky The software: css-auth.tar.gz (Linux) Or you can get the code on...A paper which shows that CSS encryption has weaknesses which make it rapidly breakable even without knowledge of any hardware keys, and describes algorithms to do so.
http://www.insecure.org/news/cry...f_contents_scrambling_system.htm
Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/01/1953236
Reference site on DeCSS with vast background information.
http://web.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.
http://www.lemuria.org/decss/hal2001.html
Text of the decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the judgement against 2600 in the DeCSS linking case.
http://www.2600.com/news/112801-files/universal.html
Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.
http://bladeenc.mp3.no/articles/decss.html
Article from November 1999 about cracking DVD encryption.
http://www.2600.com/news/archive.shtml?month-year=11-1999
Copies of legal documents filed to shut down this website.
http://www.dvd-copy.com/legal/index.html
42 funny ways to distribute the famous DVD descrambler, including Quake, HTTP cookies, MPEG movies and DNS queries.
http://decss.zoy.org/
Describes technology involved, developments in court cases, and looks at the legal issues involving hyper-linking, trade secrets, freedom of speech, and translation of DeCSS into numerical format.
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-3/guadamuz.html
A detailed site offering several guides on backing up DVDs into different formats. The author also shares his views on the issue of DeCSS through informative articles.
http://www.doom9.net/