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发信人: linuxrat (竹剑居士*农大历史上最差的学生), 信区: Linux
标  题: 关于DeCSS法案的最新消息(1)[FWD]
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URL:http://www.computerworld.com/
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   Judge bars posting of DVD decoding software
   By Ann Harrison
   01/21/2000 A federal judge yesterday granted a request by eight motion
   picture studios for a preliminary injunction against operators of Web
   sites that post a software program that breaks the encoding system
   used by millions of digital video discs (DVD).

   The ruling, by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the
   Southern District of New York, forces three New York defendants --
   Shawn C. Reimerdes, Eric Corley (also known as Emmanuel Goldstein) and
   Roman Kazan -- to immediately remove the DeCSS software utility from
   their Web sites or face contempt of court charges. A similar complaint
   was also filed against Jeraimee Hughes in the District of Connecticut
   that has yet to be decided.

   "Judge Kaplan's ruling represents a great victory for creative
   artists, consumers and copyright owners everywhere. I think this
   serves as a wake-up call to anyone who contemplates stealing
   intellectual property," said Jack Valenti, president and CEO of the
   Los Angeles-based Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in a
   statement.

   DeCSS was originally created by Norwegian programmers who
   reverse-engineered the DVD Content Scrambling System (CSS) to give
   computers running the Linux operating system DVD playback capability.
   Detailed analysis of weaknesses in the CSS have been circulating on
   the Internet for months.
   (Rat附注: 这位挪威程序员好象才15岁! 牛!)

   The MPAA argued that DeCSS violated the "anticircumvention" provisions
   of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The preliminary
   injunctions were contested by the San Francisco-based Electronic
   Frontier Foundation (EFF), which maintains that the MPAA is trying to
   suppress discussion of DVD insecurity, violating free-speech
   protections in the First Amendment. There have been no reported cases
   of consumers actually making unauthorized copies of DVDs using the
   software.

   The EFF is leading the defense in another DVD case filed in California
   Dec. 28 by the DVD Copy Control Association Inc. (CCA), which accused
   72 Web site operators of posting or linking to the DeCSS utility.

   Morgan Hill, Calif.-based CCA initially sought a temporary restraining
   order against the Web site operators. After that was denied by a
   judge, the organization then sought a preliminary injunction against
   the Web site owners. A hearing in the case took place earlier this
   week, but the judge hasn't issued a ruling.

   EFF Executive Director Tara Lemmey said the cases aren't about piracy
   or hacking but "censorship of speech critical to science, education
   and innovation. Reverse-engineering of DVD security is legitimate and
   important for systems interoperability."

   "We are disappointed in the judge's ruling. We fought the DMCA because
   we were afraid that it was going to gut fair use and it appears that
   in the judge's ruling, his interpretation of the law does gut fair
   use," said Shari Steele, director of legal services for the EFF.

   Steele noted that the judge was going to hold another hearing on the
   merits of the case in the next few weeks and the EFF would continue to
   support the defendants.

   "The next dangerous thing that we think could come from this judge is
   to make a ruling as to links. The movie industry is clearly going
   after folks who link to other sites [with DeCSS] and we think it's
   very scary that Web-site owners would be liable for linking to Web
   sites that they have no control over."

   Related stories:

     * Civil rights group blasts DVD suit, Jan. 18, 2000
     * Film studios file suit against accused DVD hackers, Jan. 17, 2000
     * Flawed copyright protection puts new spin on DVD, Dec. 13, 1999
     * DVD encryption hacked, Nov. 4, 1999

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