more significant than napster case is the case of MPAA against 2600 (a
hacker magazine), which posted the source code for DeCSS, a program to
run DVD on linux. (btw napster merely gave a space to loiter - meeting
place for people to share cd's - and even that was judged to be
illegal - until they got a stay on the injunction). the latest
development in the mpaa case is described in today's ny times. it
seems the defence has successfully argued that coding or reverse
engineering, is about free speech, and a much bigger issue than merely
copyright infringement.
full story at
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/31rite.html
an exceprt ...
The events that prompted the Motion Picture Association of
America, a trade group representing eight leading movie studios,
to sue Mr. Corley, 40, began last fall in Larvik, Norway. There,
Jon Johansen, a skinny, self-confident 15-year-old, decided he
was tired of dedicating an entire computer to Microsoft's Windows
operating system just so he could watch DVD movies on a PC. All
of his other computer activities were on machines running either
the Linux operating system or FreeBSD, another alternative to
Windows.
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