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    DeCSS is one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting commercially produced DVD-Video discs. Before the release of DeCSS, free and open...
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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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    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 is not to be confused with DeCSS, one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting CSS. DeCSS uses a cracked DVD player key to perform...
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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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    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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  • 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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    (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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Jon Lech Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer and engineer, created DeCSS 1984 – Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer and dancer 1984 – Enar Jääger, Estonian...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • SSH secure Telnet and more Content Scramble System (CSS, the DVD encryption standard, broken by DeCSS) Kerberos authentication standard RADIUS authentication...
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    June 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2013. "2002 Pioneer Awards: Gillmor, Givens, DeCSS Writers". EFF Media Release. San Francisco, CA. 2002-04-11. Archived from...
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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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  • the true dissemination of such information. When lawsuits erupted over DeCSS technology available over the Internet, allowing users to "crack" DVD encryption...
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