Was going to post this story yesterday, but decided to spend my time in other ways. While /. posted that Yahoo was first with this story, Wired is actually where I saw it. While I think everyone can agree that the MPAA's tactics have been better than the RIAA on the copyright front, they both are WAY off base in trying to roll a boulder up the side of the Internet mountain. The odd thing about this case is that no one can deny the argument that this product has a significant fair use application - though admittedly I doubt the majority are using it for that purpose. While several readers of this site I am sure have read the DMCA in full, it's still on my reading list, but I thought one of its tenets besides allowing reverse engineering for compatibility was a fair use exception.
It is evident to this Court, as it has been to previous courts, that CSS is a technological measure that both effectively controls access to DVDs and effectively protects the right of a copyright holder
Yeah, it is so effective that no DVD has ever been posted to the Internet and there isn't a ~100 character PERL script out there that can do the job. The only thing less effective would have been if they had just switched the 1's and 0's.
Posted by shs4 at February 21, 2004 03:32 PM | TrackBackGood news on a somewhat related case:
DeCSS ban violated free speech