News in the DeCSS case (reported here). The court continued but didn't get any further. They have been asked to provide additional legal information about the case.
Lawyers representing "hacker quarterly" 2600 Magazine said it was "good news" that the judges have extended a deadline for final briefs in the case in order to elicit additional arguments on nearly a dozen legal points. |
A phalanx of motion picture studios say the magazine and its publisher, Eric Corley, broke copyright law by publishing information on its Web site about software that can crack open DVDs protected by the industry's Content Scrambling System (CSS).
2600 Magazine, backed by online civil liberties organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), argued that it was exercising its First Amendment right by publishing the code for the decryption program, known as DeCSS.
The judges have asked to answer 11 specific questions in 25 pages. Continued on May 30. More DeCSS postings here.
Source: Newsbytes
