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California Supreme Court Ruling on DVD Decryption a Mixed Bag.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Sam Diaz, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 26--California's Supreme Court left both sides of a controversial DVD-decryption case declaring victory Monday.
The case has pit freedom-of-speech arguments against an entertainment-industry effort to protect what it says are trade secrets. Hollywood is happy because the court upheld an injunction that prohibits Internet posting of code that allows computer users to crack copy-protection on DVD movies. Web-site owners such as Andrew Bunner, the San Francisco computer programmer who was sued for posting the code called DeCSS, are happy because they'll get another chance to challenge Hollywood's argument that copy-protection code is a trade secret.
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