The Californian Attorney General Bill Lockyer has called the
DVD software DeCSS a tool for "breaking, entering and stealing". He said
this during the hearing of the case DVD Copy Control Association versus
webmaster Andrew Bunner before the California Supreme Court on
Thursday. The court is considering if a ban on posting the code to the web
has been violating free speech.
 Bunner's lawyer, David Greene, told the court that
the DVD CCA was trying to stop the flow of information by seeking a ban on
posting the code by people who are unrelated to the case. Greene said
Bunner put the code on his site after reading about it on Slashdot and
wasn't involved in creating DeCSS or originally posting the code to the
Web.
"To call Mr. Bunner a third party is being generous," Greene said.
"He's a 100th party." Greene said the trial court, in granting the
injunction, failed to consider that the ban violated Bunner's free speech
rights. "We're not saying it's impossible for people to protect their
trade secrets," Greene told the court, saying they just must do it within
the limits of the First Amendment |
The judges are expected to issue a ruling in the next weeks or most
likely even months. Read the entire story here.
Source: News.com
