Huey: Caesar, look at this!! Caesar: What? Huey: I found the DECSS code that breaks the encryption on DVDs! Caesar: Relly? Let me see! Wow, is this legal? Huey: The code? Of course.
Wow – talk about memory lane! BTW – Huey was right. The actual source code for a program to break the region-based encryption was judged to be a perfectly legal thing – it’s just words. Odd-looking words to the non-programmer, but words nonetheless, and protected as free speech. only USING the program complied from the code was deemed a violation. I have a t-shirt with the tokenized code on the back. Good times …
Wow – talk about memory lane! BTW – Huey was right. The actual source code for a program to break the region-based encryption was judged to be a perfectly legal thing – it’s just words. Odd-looking words to the non-programmer, but words nonetheless, and protected as free speech. only USING the program complied from the code was deemed a violation. I have a t-shirt with the tokenized code on the back. Good times …