DeCSS is one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting content on a commercially produced DVD video disc. Before the release of DeCSS...
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DeCSS haiku is a 465-stanza haiku poem written in 2001 by American hacker Seth Schoen as part of the protest action regarding the prosecution of Norwegian...
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Jon Lech Johansen (section DeCSS prosecution)
programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. He wrote the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scramble System used for DVD licensing...
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Libdvdcss (section Comparison with DeCSS)
and MPlayer.[citation needed] libdvdcss is not to be confused with DeCSS. Whereas DeCSS uses a cracked DVD player key to perform authentication, libdvdcss...
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plaintiffs, all movie studios, sought an injunction against the distribution of DeCSS, a program capable of decrypting video content that had been encrypted by...
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violates Title 1 of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In part of the DeCSS court order and in the AACS legal notices, the claimed protection for these...
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Prior restraint (section DeCSS case)
to the DeCSS code in these circumstances. The appeals court did consider the prior restraint and free expression issues, but treated the DeCSS program...
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using DeCSS explicitly. The court found that CSS was a trade secret that has been well guarded for three years prior to the disclosure of DeCSS, and it...
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disc in a computer system. CSS does not make it difficult (any more) to copy the digital content now that a decoder (DeCSS) has been released, nor is...
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other assistive technologies. In 1999, Jon Lech Johansen released DeCSS, which allowed a CSS-encrypted DVD to play on a computer running Linux, at a time when...
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Standard). Based on the leaked DeCSS source-code, Frank A. Stevenson published in November 1999 three exploits that rendered the CSS cipher practically ineffective:...
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(EFF), this takedown request was a "throwback threat" analogous to the DeCSS controversy. On February 4, 2022, Mitch Glazier swiftly took action against...
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Forum's Content Scramble System (CSS). Although the cryptoanalysis was done independently, he is known for his relations to DeCSS, and appeared before the courts...
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Kurdish Islamist group, Ansar al-Islam. After Jon Lech Johansen released DeCSS, he was taken to court by Økokrim. The trial opened in the Oslo District...
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CCA) for trade secret misappropriation because they posted DeCSS on the LiViD website. DeCSS AACS encryption key controversy Mirrors of the LiViD homepage...
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publicized case versus Jon Johansen who they alleged wrote DeCSS. The case was dropped in January 2004. CSS decrypting software (such as DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD...
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Quarterly, for publishing the code of DeCSS, an algorithm designed to bypass the Content Scramble System (CSS) used to encrypt DVD content. The studios...
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the takedown resulted in a Streisand effect reminiscent to that of the DeCSS takedown. Users reposted the software's source code across the internet...
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Stephanie Perrin 2002: Dan Gillmor, Beth Givens, Jon Johansen and Writers of DeCSS 2003: Amy Goodman, Eben Moglen, David Sobel 2004: Kim Alexander, David L...
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not have the ability to circumvent copy protections of encrypted DVDs. DeCSS DVD ripper (list of various related programs) AnyDVD DVD Shrink "Cease and...
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Content Scrambling System (CSS). To play a CSS DVD, it must be decrypted. Jon Johansen and two anonymous colleagues wrote DeCSS, a program that did this...
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networks. Jon Lech Johansen, nicknamed DVDJon, was interviewed, regarding the DeCSS software that allowed for DVD discs to be played on the Linux Operating...
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Universal v. Reimerdes involving the distribution of DVD copy protection tool DeCSS, where courts upheld the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright...
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single executable file that is one megabyte in size. The program features a DeCSS decryption algorithm, enabling it to open and decrypt many currently available...
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secure Telnet and more Content Scrambling System (CSS, the DVD encryption standard, broken by DeCSS) Kerberos authentication standard RADIUS authentication...
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also known for its DoD DVD Speed Ripper released in 1999 shortly before DeCSS. DrinkOrDie was the biggest and most important software related group in...
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edition.[citation needed] In October 1999, DeCSS was released. This program enables anyone to remove the CSS encryption on a DVD. Although its authors...
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rights management in the motion picture and music industries, including DeCSS on DVDs, and the lack of widespread adoption of a similar technology on...
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The suit concerned the publication of DVD decryption software known as DeCSS, which the plaintiffs asserted was illegal under the Digital Millennium...
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Schoen, technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, author of the DeCSS haiku Steven Strogatz, Professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University...
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