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标  题: 关于DeCSS法案的最新消息(2)[FWD]
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   January 21, 2000 13:06

U.S. judge orders DVD hack off Internet sites

   WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. District Court hasordered three
   people to remove from their Web sites a software program that could
   allow copying of DVD movies.

   District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York issued a temporary injunction
   late on Thursday forbidding the Web sites from carrying the DeCSS
   program that would allow users to bypass the encryption scheme used on
   DVDs (digital versatile discs) to prevent unauthorized copying.

   The three defendants in the case were Shawn Reimerdes, operator of
   http://www.dvd-copy.com, Eric Corley, a well-known figure in the
   hacker community who goes by the name Emmanuel Goldstein and operates
   http://www.2600.org, and Roman Kazan, whose company hosts
   http://www.krackdown.com.

   Major Hollywood movie studios that filed the lawsuit said the
   software, written by a teenage Norwegian programmer, would let people
   illegally duplicate their movies.

   A provision of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act forbids
   distribution of products designed to crack copyright protection
   schemes, the studios argued.

   "I think this serves as a wake-up call to anyone who contemplates
   stealing intellectual property," Jack Valenti, president of the Motion
   Picture Association of America, said in a statement.

   Internet civil liberties groups that have opposed the lawsuit on
   freedom of speech grounds said they would continue to fight in court.

   They said the program was meant to allow viewing of DVD movies on
   computers running the Linux operating system and therefore did not
   violate the copyright law. The law provided an exception for
   security-cracking if the product was intended to allow
   interoperability.

   "These cases are not about piracy or hacking," said Tara Lemmey,
   executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "They are
   about censorship of speech critical to science, education and
   innovation."

   EFF, a nonprofit group based in San Francisco, provided lawyers for
   the defendants.

   The ruling did not affect other sites that might have the DeCSS
   program or sites that linked to sites with the program, the EFF
   attorneys said.

   The studios that filed the lawsuit included Buena Vista Pictures, a
   unit of Walt Disney Co. , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., Paramount Pictures
   Corp., a unit of Viacom Inc., Sony's Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.,
   News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Universal Studios Inc.,
   a unit of Seagram Co. , and Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc.
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