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Court: DeCSS ban violated free speech (News.com)
News.com reports
that a California appeals court has reversed an order barring the
publication of DeCSS. "The plaintiff, the DVD Copy Control
Association, had argued that Andrew Bunner violated its intellectual
property rights by posting on the Internet code known as DeCSS that can be
used to bypass Hollywood's encryption scheme for DVDs. Bunner's attorneys
had countered that the code was no longer a secret by the time he posted it
on his Web site. On Friday, California's Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
agreed, reversing a trial judge's order first issued in 1999."
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Court: DeCSS ban violated free speech (News.com) Posted Feb 29, 2004 5:18 UTC (Sun) by log2 (guest, #10024) [Link] Judge Lewis Kaplan, you're next to have your ruling overturned!<quote> Judge Kaplan rejected every argument, point by point, made by the defendants and firmly endorsed, point by point, the claims of MPAA made under provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) for protecting intellectual property. A clear link was made by this federal case with the California Kaplan said "linking to" vs. "hosting" content was "a distinction
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