It's hacked, but will it be sacked? Developers of new copy-protection scheme grapple with first attack.(V PLUS: HOME ENTERTAINMENT QUARTERLY REPORT)

Muslix64 may become the "DVD Jon" of the hi-def era. That would be Jon Johansen, the then-16-year-old Norwegian hacker who in 1998 was the first to publish DeCSS, a few lines of computer code that effectively circumvented the copy-protection on DVDs. His exploits earned him two criminal prosecutions in Norway (he was acquitted both times) and a starring role on a U.S.

witness stand in the first major court test of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It also made Johansen a digerati folk-hero. Now comes Muslix64, who on Jan. 2, became the first to ...

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