Ed Felten on the Bunner ruling [LWN.net]

Here is Ed Felten's take on the California Supreme Court's ruling that posting the DeCSS code is not protected by the first amendment. "Information about Enron's finances is of public concern, even though only accountants can interpret it in its raw form. Information about the Space Shuttle wing structure is of public concern, even though only a few engineers understand it fully. CSS is a controversial technology, and information about how it works is directly relevant to the debate about it. True, many people who are interested in the debate will have to rely on experts to explain the relevant parts of DeCSS to them; but the same is true of Enron's accounting or the Shuttle's engineering."

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