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• Arts: Movies: Home Video: DVD  (166)
• Computers: Open Source: Open Content  (73)
• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Linux: Hardware Support: DVD  (12)
• Society: Law: Legal Information: Computer and Technology Law: Internet: Linking Law  (56)

Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System - - A paper which shows that CSS encryption has weaknesses which make it rapidly breakable even without knowledge of any hardware keys, and describes algorithms to do so.

DeCSS Central - - Reference site on DeCSS with vast background information.

DeCSS Central: HAL2001 Speech - - Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.

DeCSS/2600 Court of Appeals Decision - - Text of the decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the judgement against 2600 in the DeCSS linking case.

DeCSS for Linux and DVD - - Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.

DVD Backup Guides - - A detailed site offering several guides on backing up DVDs into different formats. The author also shares his views on the issue of DeCSS through informative articles.

DVD-Copy.com - Legal Battle - - Copies of legal documents filed to shut down this website.

Gallery of CSS Descramblers - - If DeCSS code is illegal in the USA, but text is protected, where do you draw the line? A gallery of exhibits of the descrambling algorithm from code through plain English to graphic images.

2600 Hacker Quarterly News Archive - - Article from November 1999 about cracking DVD encryption.

In Defense of Free Speech on the Internet - - The Global Internet Liberty Campaign member statement opposing the efforts by the DVD-CAA to censor websites worldwide. Signed by more than fifty global civil liberties organizations.

Trouble with Prime Numbers - - Describes technology involved, developments in court cases, and looks at the legal issues involving hyper-linking, trade secrets, freedom of speech, and translation of DeCSS into numerical format.

The Truth About the DVD Case - - Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.

42 Ways to Distribute DeCSS - - 42 funny ways to distribute the famous DVD descrambler, including Quake, HTTP cookies, MPEG movies and DNS queries.

California DeCSS case - - Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case. (November 1, 2001)