Rumpled suits: the studios won the battle against 2600, but the war against DeCSS has been utterly lost. (Headliners).

Video Business, December, 2002 by Sweeting, Paul

If it weren't clear enough already, last week's ruling by the California Supreme Court denying California's jurisdiction over out-of-state residents for alleged illegal acts performed via the Internet should make it abundantly clear that the studios' strategy of security through litigation has been a flop.

If Hollywood means to protect the next generation of packaged and electronically delivered movie formats from widespread copying, it's going to have to rely on more robust encryption technologies rather than the long, but exceedingly slow, arm of the law. The studios won a major victory this year in the case against 2600 magazine, which was found guilty of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by posting on its Web site the source code for...

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