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Web Sites in Category DVD Encryption

2600 Hacker Quarterly News Archive - Article from November 1999 about cracking DVD encryption.

42 Ways to Distribute DeCSS - 42 funny ways to distribute the famous DVD descrambler, including Quake, HTTP cookies, MPEG movies and DNS queries.

California DeCSS case - Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case.

Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System - A paper which shows that CSS encryption has weaknesses which make it rapidly breakable even without knowledge of any hardware keys, and describes algorithms to do so.

DeCSS Central - Reference site on DeCSS with vast background information.

DeCSS Central: HAL2001 Speech - Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.

DeCSS for Linux and DVD - Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.

DeCSS/2600 Court of Appeals Decision - Text of the decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the judgement against 2600 in the DeCSS linking case.

DVD Backup Guides - A detailed site offering several guides on backing up DVDs into different formats. The author also shares his views on the issue of DeCSS through informative articles.

DVD-Copy.com - Legal Battle - Copies of legal documents filed to shut down this website.

Gallery of CSS Descramblers - If DeCSS code is illegal in the USA, but text is protected, where do you draw the line? A gallery of exhibits of the descrambling algorithm from code through plain English to graphic images.

In Defense of Free Speech on the Internet - The Global Internet Liberty Campaign member statement opposing the efforts by the DVD-CAA to censor websites worldwide. Signed by more than fifty global civil liberties organizations.

The Truth About the DVD Case - Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.

Trouble with Prime Numbers - Describes technology involved, developments in court cases, and looks at the legal issues involving hyper-linking, trade secrets, freedom of speech, and translation of DeCSS into numerical format.

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Arts > Movies > Home Video > DVD
Computers > Open Source > Open Content
Computers > Software > Operating Systems > Linux > Hardware Support > DVD
Society > Issues > Intellectual Property
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