Mr. Belvedere used our newssubmit to tell us that the hack magazine 2600 is not going to the Supreme Court to defend their right to post links to the DVD decrypting tool DeCSS.
The magazine had reviewed their chances and finds them to small to continue their legal actions. Already both the New York District Court and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals interpreted the DMCA as banning 2600 Magazine from publishing or linking to DeCSS
Hacker magazine 2600 is to drop its appeal to the Supreme Court after concluding it had little chance of establishing its right to post links to the DeCSS utility. |
In a statement on the case, 2600 said that after consulting with its lawyers it decided it had taken the case as far as it could.
The decision ends the publication's two-and-a-half year legal battle over DeCSS, which permits DVD owners to use players which the entertainment industry had not approved.
Source: Theregister.co.uk
