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Old 12-22-2003, 11:01 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 12-22-2003, 05:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The U.S. movie industry, which brought the case in a bid to stifle piracy that it says costs $3.0 billion a year in lost sales, slammed the verdict as an encouragement to hackers.


I should mention what he did was break the CSS encryption on DVDs. Anyone who keeps current on such things knows that CSS is NOT meant to keep sly consumers from copying DVDs. It's to keep people from making DVD players without a *very* expensive liscense from the MPAA.
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Old 12-23-2003, 02:22 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Redwolf -yep! At least you get what this is about. I don't see the "U.S. movie industry" going after DVD X-Copy or anything like that....
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Don't tell me I'm the only one out of 7 of you to respond to this!
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