decss on S Anand

Perl illiteracy

Thu, 15 May 2003 12:00:00 +0000

US high school seniors can’t read Perl. Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).

DeCSS haikus

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:00:00 +0000

A truly inspired way of describing DeCSS: DeCSS haikus. (I hope linking to it is not illegal.)

Linking to illegal sites is illegal

Sat, 15 Dec 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Linking to illegal sites is illegal. But if you just type the URL like http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ that’s fine.

DeCSS lost the case

Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Oops. DeCSS lost the case. Welcome to the world of strong copyright protection.

DeCSS is legal

Sun, 04 Nov 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Preliminary indications are good. DeCSS is legal (so far.)

Cracking DVDs

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Two MIT students have written a 7-line program that unscrambles protected DVDs. It’s downloadable. The legal issue is whether source code deserves protection on par with freedom of expression.