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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: 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.