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Hollywood vs Open Source

by Steve Gibson Feb 28, 2000 5:50am CST tags: Wack News, MPAA
ZDNet 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.

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