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The New York Times Movie Industry Frowns on Professor's Software Gallery
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"Prof. David S. Touretzky, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, says he has never watched a movie on DVD, much less copied one illegally. So why is the movie industry calling him a pirate?

The answer can be found on a university site which houses an unusual Web project launched by Professor Touretzky - a project which has turned him into something of a celebrity in Internet legal circles. His site is a gallery devoted to representations of a piece of software that has been deemed illegal because it can be used to break through the copy-protection system on DVD movies."

SecurityFocus Stanford law dean to argue DeCSS case
"Kathleen Sullivan, dean of prestigious Stanford Law School, will represent Eric Corley before an appeals court in the ongoing legal battle over publication of a DVD descrambling computer program, adding more legal heft to a case that many observers believe is destined for the Supreme Court.

Corley, publisher of 2600, The Hackers Quarterly, was the target of a motion picture industry lawsuit filed in New York last year after he put a copy of DeCSS on his publication's web site."

The Register DeCSS makes the funny pages
"The world's most illegal computer program made an appearance on the comics page this week, and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) isn't laughing.

Two consecutive installments of the popular syndicated comic strip "The Boondocks" slammed opponents of DeCSS, an open source program that allows users to bypass the scrambling system used to protect DVDs. The strip appears in 250 daily and Sunday papers in the US, according to distributor Universal Press Syndicate."

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