✦ LIBER ✦
UK legislates against hackers as cyber-terrorists
- Book ID
- 104391377
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Volume
- 2001
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1353-4858
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
news circumvention technology...to achieve interoperability of computer programs," the law states.
In that context, let us consider the origin of the DeCSS code. A 16-year old Norwegian programmer, Jon Johanssen, wanted to watch his DVDs on a Linux box but there was no such hardware available. He found that the easiest way around the problem was to crack CSS. And so, DeCSS was born -lawfully. This is another example of federal support for copyright law at the expense of rights and freedoms -it follows hot on the heels of the ruling that file-swapping Napster must be shut down.
See the legal documents at http://cryptome.org.