Society, Issues, Intellectual Property, DVD Encryption
See Also:
- 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.
- 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.
- Reference site on DeCSS with vast background information.
- 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.
- 42 funny ways to distribute the famous DVD descrambler, including Quake, HTTP cookies, MPEG movies and DNS queries.
- Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case.
- Copies of legal documents filed to shut down this website.
- Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.
- Text of the decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the judgement against 2600 in the DeCSS linking case.
- Article from November 1999 about cracking DVD encryption.
- 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.
- 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.
- Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.
- Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.
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