Judge sides with Hollywood in DVD descrambling/DMCA case
Decision is at: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08117.PDF Final judgment and order: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/00-08118.PDF http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38287,00.html Studios Score DeCSS Victory by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 11:40 a.m. Aug. 17, 2000 PDT LOS ANGELES -- A DVD-descrambling program is akin to a virulent Internet epidemic that must be eradicated, a federal judge said Thursday as he agreed with Hollywood that DVDs must be protected from decryption and copying. Comparing the DeCSS utility to a "common-source outbreak epidemic," U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said "there is little room for doubting that broad dissemination of DeCSS threatens ultimately to injure or destroy plaintiffs' ability to distribute their copyrighted products on DVDs, and, for that matter, undermine their ability to sell their products to the home video market in other forms." The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in New York, and a similar one pending in state court in California, are part of an aggressive campaign by Hollywood to protect its content from illicit distribution online. The Napster file-trading service has come under attack, as have iCraveTV and Scour.net. Kaplan's 93-page ruling against hacker-zine 2600 Magazine, which eight movie studios sued after it posted DeCSS on its website, likely will have far-reaching effects in the computer industry. It prevents 2600 from not only distributing copies of DeCSS, but also linking to Web pages or areas of a website where it resides. That could affect other online news organizations, which have occasionally linked to DeCSS as part of their coverage of the lawsuit. "I'm very troubled by the implications of the analysis in this case, particularly with regard to linking," said Stuart Biegel, a senior lecturer at the UCLA School of Law. "The distinction set forth in this opinion between different types of linking is a nebulous one." The Motion Picture Association of America, which has backed the lawsuit, applauded the ruling. "Today's landmark decision nailed down an indispensable constitutional and congressional truth: It's wrong to help others steal creative works," MPAA president Jack Valenti said in a statement. "The court's ruling is a victory for consumers and for legitimate technology." The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has paid for the legal defense of 2600 publisher Emmanuel Goldstein, said it would appeal the ruling. Kaplan's decision, if upheld on appeal, could endanger not just websites distributing DeCSS -- and there seem to be thousands of them -- but efforts by the Linux community to develop an open-source DVD player. The LiViD project, for instance, is attempting to build a modular suite of software DVD players, and to do that, programmers incorporated the same code used in DeCSS. Kaplan's order said that anyone acting "in concert" with 2600 is prohibited from distributing or linking to any program that circumvents the DVD-protection algorithm called CSS. "Now the MPAA has an avenue to go around bullying anyone offering the LiViD project files, simply by making an argument that they're operating in conjunction with 2600, and 2600 has been enjoined from posting any CSS code, not just the infamous DeCSS.exe," wrote one irate poster on an open-source-related mailing list. [...]
Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote: :If they truly believe in getting rid of guns, why don't they start with the :guns of their body guards? They [obviously] don't believe in "getting rid of guns": they believe in getting rid of OUR guns. I think there is nothing much wrong in that. The problem is not the guns of a select few who can have real use for them and whose use of weaponry is tightly watched. The problem is in having everybody from toddlers to grannies packing heat and using it when somebody steps on their toes. Somewhat like the situation with drugs - no problem if 10% of the Except reality doesn't show that. In the real world, those who are normally law abiding tend not to use it when "somebody steps on their toes". In fact, they tend to mis-identify targets less often than police officers. Throughout history, every dictatorship has practiced arms [gun] confiscation and regulation in order to impede reactionary / revolutionary backlashes from their crimes - from Ceasar through Hitler, Stalin, and Clinton. On the other hand, everyday drive-by shootings and such aren't exactly pointed towards the powers that be. No, drive-by shootings *tend* to be targeted at other combatants--usually rival gang members or rival drug dealers. They also tend to occur (at least in the US) in the cities with the strictest gun control. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: *** Today good taste is often erroneously rejected as old-fashioned because ordinary man, seeking approval of his so-called personality, prefers to follow the dictates of his own peculiar style rather than submit to any objective criterion of taste.--Jan Tschichold
Re: europe physical meeting
Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote: Yip. Interested. Definitely interested. What happened to that meeting in munich ? Do you need any help organizing ? I didn't get any reply on what's up with the munich meeting, so I guess it was just a rumour. if anyone wants to help in the org, I'd be happy. Did you announce on the meetingpunks list as well (not subscribed yet, just doing that...) ? nope. what's the address?
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Re: MPAA Wins New York DeCSS Case
Kaplan's overt prejudice from day one surely diminished respect for federal justice. I had not seen such behavior before in New York. And when the prejudice was flaunted increasingly during trial it occurred to me that he was diabolically aiming to show just how biased the DMCA is toward the copyright industry. A kind of reverse or rather perverse judgmentalism to send a message to Congress and its lobbyists that they could not get away with racketeer influenced organized crime, not on his watch. But perhaps, I now think, I was being too understanding of Kaplan, too forgiving of his one-sided behavior. For it is possible, I tell myself, that Kaplan was showing a modern face of old time corrupt justice, that the fix was in from day one. That would also account for his implacable opposition to the defense, the lackadaisical presentations of the plaintiffs, his repeated rulings in favor of the plaintiffs, the personal attacks on Garbus by Kaplan during trial, Kaplan's rudeness toward Robin Gross and Allonn Levy at the PI hearing, and the contempt he displays in his decision for the defendants and disparagement of supporters. Kaplan blatantly uses the DMCA to cloak his foregone conclusions as in days of old judges quoted the law to justify criminality of those in power to hold maintain their power. Running a court across the street from Little Italy may not be grounds for associating Kaplan with organized crime, but his decision speaks to me for such a tie with the copyright industry and its Congressional supporters being foregone. Yes, hatred of prejudice in such corrupt judges, and contempt for their courts, is right and just. At 01:57 PM 8/17/00 -0400, you wrote: I hate Judge Kaplan. Eric Grimm
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Re: bombs
could you tell me where to buy any books on how to make pipe bombs A plea to the FBI Education Commission: Please do update provocateur procedures as far as electronic forums are concerned. You are insulting us and forcing us to lower already low regard for the institution you are associated with. I am ashamed when talking about this with my overseas friends, because even Belgian police have better stature.
Re: trial panic?
Benjamin Huth Byer wrote: does anyone know the traffic on 2600.com ? I wouldn't be surprised if they get the peak of their life. No, and nobody ever will. The MPAA tried to make an issue of this -- "surely DeCSS is making you popular!" The response was that 2600 keeps no logs and does no analysis whatsoever, probably for that reason. probably also in order to stop any "discovery" cold. I know that I kill my xferlog regularily. which, incidently, made me lie in the earlier post. that ~3000 downloads wasn't "this month". it was "since I deleted the xferlog last time". the actual number is closer to 5 or 6k, going from what data I have.
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anything is speech - here is the proof
you'll find a small piece of software attached. from the README: the purpose of this program is to demonstrate that ANYTHING is speech, or can be expressed as speech. one of the wordlists supplied as examples is the US constitution. using dox, you can express decss, or cookie recipes, or kiddie porn, or the president's latest speech, or anything else into different minced-up versions of the constitution. what are you going to outlaw? dox/undox? half a page of code that anyone with half a brain can recreate within a few minutes? the constitution? the constitution, mixed up? in addition, is distributing the constitution now illegal under DMCA since it constitutes (pun intended) a "circumvention device" for my "encryption"? I know there is at least one other program on the web that turns source code into english poems. however, dox works on BINARY files, and using the constitution, or the MPAA/DVDCCA's own legal documents as the wordlist just add's a nice touch for those extra style points. the program and idea is hereby donated to the public domain. -- "The net treats censorship as a malfunction and re-routes around it." (John Gilmore) dox.tar.gz
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Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)
At 9:42 PM -0700 on 8/17/00, Tim May trolled: Bob Hettinga, who used to practice this same kind of "why can't you write the kind of articles I _like_!" pressuring Oh. Pressuring. *That's* what it was... I stand corrected. ;-). Cheers, RAH Who agrees with Tim more often than he'd like to admit, frankly... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
trial panic?
it seems the trial result will do the opposite of what the MPAA is hoping for, at least in the short term. if the MPAA truly believes, as judge kaplan put it, that decss is an epidemic spreading around the web, then the trial result gave it a giant boost. I'm running a high-profile DeCSS site, referenced in lots of news articles and one of the 23 named defendants in the california case. I have had around 3100 downloads of DeCSS from my site this month. 2400 of them within the past 19 hours. (*) my website has seen a similiar increase in traffic - the day still has 5 hours, and if it keeps going I will have received as much hits on the DeCSS directory today as I've seen the whole month before. does anyone know the traffic on 2600.com ? I wouldn't be surprised if they get the peak of their life. the horse was out of the barn for a long time, but with the ruling today, it's clear that it's not even in the country anymore. (*) add one hundred to that. 100 people downloaded DeCSS from my site alone while I was writing this mail. this is just insane. someone please buy the MPAA a clue or two.
Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)
I wrote a few minutes ago: fascist-units. About the only judge I know the name of, aside from the Supremes, is Judge Bader, because of Napster, the crypto speech case, and because I attended one of her sessions a few years ago. No, I have no plans to kill her. --end excerpt-- A brain fart. I meant to write "Judge Patel." Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or Bader-Ginsburg, or whatever, is one of the Supremes. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)
At 12:39 PM -0400 8/18/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 9:42 PM -0700 on 8/17/00, Tim May trolled: Bob Hettinga, who used to practice this same kind of "why can't you write the kind of articles I _like_!" pressuring Oh. Pressuring. *That's* what it was... I stand corrected. ;-). To elaborate a bit on my point, I often get comments in personal e-mail and sometimes here on the list along these lines: (this is from memory, though I could spend a few hours digging up several actual examples if I cared to) "Tim, I like a lot of your stuff, but I really wish you'd write more about cryptography and less about politics." ""Hey, guns kill people! Why can't you advocate using crypto for helping people?" "In recent months your words have become racist and hateful." "I wish you would write more of the stuff I like." It's natural that people will take issue with one or more points of view from anyone who has strong opinions and the willingness (and economic freedom) to express them. I cherish the First Amendment. This means the government may not act in any way to restrict my words, whether they are sexist, racist, speciesist, ageist, or revelatory of supposed government secrets. In very limited cases they may act to suppress speech--so the theory goes--involving very direct threats against certain specific persons. Supporting McVeigh's actions, or Oswald's removal of a simp-wimp, does not fall into this category. Calling for the death of burrowcrats in general does not either. "First, kill all the lawyers" and "Hang them all" is quite clearly political speech. And much more common in America in the past that the PC Police would like to believe. What _might_ fall into this category? Besides words spoken about the sitting President and specific other senior officials, naming the specific names of judges, FBI officials, etc., and calling for action against them _might_ trigger legal action. Under the umbrella of "threatening" and "inciting" and suchlike general terms. This is, as I've said before, one reason I make it a point not to even know the names of judges and their kind; the U.S. Marshals Service and the DOJ released a report that I was planning to kill a federal judge somewhere up in Washington state. A ludicrous attempt to trigger me into some action, I believe. I had never heard of this judge, and make it a point not to track individual fascist-units. About the only judge I know the name of, aside from the Supremes, is Judge Bader, because of Napster, the crypto speech case, and because I attended one of her sessions a few years ago. No, I have no plans to kill her. It's gotten bizarre in the last few years as more and more political groups and liberals (and conservatives, too) have called for limitations on speech. And as people have increasingly claimed that _words_ constitute violations of someone's freedom. And then there's the paranoid atmosphere. (A lawyer who reads this list has offered to serve in some capacity as my defense lawyer during the "show trial" which he says he thinks is coming.) OK, what about action by my employer against my speech? What about action by my ISP? What about action by the list owner? First, no employer. I can say what I wish without getting a call from the Director of Human Relations inviting me to attend a voluntary mandatory Sensitivity Training Workship. Second, my ISP doesn't care what I say. Unlike AOL, they understand that screening words for "hate speech" is a losing proposition, and one counter to the _spirit_ of free and open debate which once made this nation great. Third, the Cypherpunks list cannot do anything about my speech because of its present organization. Speech controls were tried a few years back, as most of you know. In summary, I write what moves me. I don't write to recruit nattering nabobs who need a sugar-coated version of libertarianism and crypto anarchy because they are in favor of gun control, or laws against hate speech, or even because they think the focus of the list should be on geodesic global fractional clearing or whatever the buzzword du jour is. I write to express what I think, as an outlet. Don't like my words? Don't read them. To paraphrase Scoop Nisker, "If you don't like the words, go out and write some of your own." (This is a general comment, not directed at Bob Hettinga, who certainly writes enough of his own words.) --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
Re: trial panic?
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know the traffic on 2600.com ? I wouldn't be surprised if they get the peak of their life. No, and nobody ever will. The MPAA tried to make an issue of this -- "surely DeCSS is making you popular!" The response was that 2600 keeps no logs and does no analysis whatsoever, probably for that reason. Ben
