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Hollywood vs Open Source
by Steve Gibson, Feb 28, 2000 3:50am PSTZDNet is carrying a story about the Hollywood vs Open Source battles that have been going on lately. As we all know the recording industry hates MP3 audio as they feel it's costing them money (sales went up 6% last year btw). Well with the release of DeCSS the Hollywood folks are getting all bent out of shape about the DVD industry now. Hollywood has a history of this stuff, hell they even fought against the VHS tape being released.
The DVD CCA, which is targeting Pavlovich and at least 70 other defendants, alleges that simply linking to DeCSS code amounts to trade-secret theft. The MPAA, meanwhile, is wielding the DMCA, accusing, in two federal lawsuits filed in Connecticut and New York, four people of using DeCSS to circumvent its copyrights.
Comments
First it was MP3. Then it\'s DeCSS (DVD). Next thing they\'ll get upset over
is OpenSource.
It is (un)fortunate that the power of the scanner is not fully understood by
lawyers. To wit: http://cryptome.org/dvd-v-521.htm#3:
Nothing like looking at the offending code...
How sad... they even intentionally mispelled his site such that it wouldn\'t attract any more hits. I wonder if these tightass hollywood/RIAA types are capable of shitting anything other than diamonds. :)
Missed by > < that much.