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<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER>发信人: linuxrat (竹剑居士*农大历史上最差的学生), 信区: Linux <BR>标 题: 关于DeCSS法案的最新消息(3)[FWD] <BR>发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jan 22 08:22:09 2000) <BR> <BR>URL: <A HREF="http://news.cnet.com/">http://news.cnet.com/</A> <BR>======Begin======= <BR> Film industry fights DVD decryption sites <BR> By Sandeep Junnarkar <BR> Staff Writer, CNET News.com <BR> January 21, 2000, 9:30 a.m. PT <BR> <BR> The Motion Picture Association of America is gaining ground this <BR> week in its ongoing campaign to eliminate a program that cracks the <BR> security on DVDs. <BR> <BR> The movie industry trade group has sent out an additional 500 <BR> cease-and-desist letters to Web site operators accusing them of <BR> violating U.S. copyright law, after chalking up a victory in the <BR> Southern District of New York yesterday. Federal judge Lewis Kaplan <BR> issued a preliminary injunction against three defendants sued by <BR> the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for the <BR> distribution of the de-scrambling program on the Internet. <BR> <BR> Those defendants have been ordered to take the material in question <BR> off their Web sites. <BR> <BR> "Judge Kaplan's ruling represents a great victory for creative <BR> artists, consumers and copyright owners everywhere," Jack Valenti, <BR> CEO of the MPAA, said in a statement. "I think this serves as a <BR> wake-up call to anyone who contemplates stealing intellectual <BR> property." <BR> <BR> The motion picture industry has been on a warpath for about six <BR> months, sending letters to hundreds of Web sites ordering them to <BR> remove the "offending" code or links to it. The MPAA started its <BR> battle after a 16-year-old Norwegian student posted code known as <BR> DeCSS on a Web site that theoretically would allow a user with a <BR> DVD drive on his or her PC to make copies of DVD movies and store <BR> them on the PC's hard drive or copy them to rewritable CD-ROMs. <BR> <BR> Since that time, the utility has spread almost like wildfire, <BR> multiplying to hundreds of sites. In cases where the people have <BR> not folded, the MPAA has taken them to court under a myriad of <BR> legal tactics--including accusations of stealing trade secrets. <BR> <BR> But civil liberties advocates are firing back at the MPAA. The <BR> Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit organization <BR> providing pro bono legal counsel to the defendants in the New York <BR> case and another case in California, argues that many of the sites <BR> do not offer copyright cracking tools but discuss the "the <BR> technical insecurity of DVD." <BR> <BR> "These cases are not about piracy or hacking," Tara Lemmey, EFF's <BR> executive director, said in a statement. "They are about censorship <BR> of speech critical to science, education and innovation." <BR> <BR> The film industry maintains, however, that distribution of the <BR> DeCSS goes beyond playing DVDs on other operating systems and <BR> allows people to make illegal copies of movies for distribution. <BR> <BR> With its latest round of letters, the MPAA continues its tactics of <BR> using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to pressure sites <BR> to remove the code. The New York-based firm of Sargoy, Stein, Rosen <BR> & Shapiro, which represents 11 major movie studios including <BR> Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures, is trying <BR> to get more sites to remove the DeCSS utility. <BR> <BR> The DMCA made it a crime to distribute technologies designed to <BR> circumvent copyright protection measures. <BR> <BR> One letter was sent to Brian Ristuccia, who runs a Web site that <BR>
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