Publisher Drops Appeal of
DVD Decoding Software Ban
The publisher of the online hacker magazine 2600 has announced it would not appeal a court ruling prohibiting people from posting a program that can crack the computer code protecting copyrighted DVDs, or even linking to the decoding program.
The August 2000 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan was upheld last November by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, which found that the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not infringe on constitutional free-speech protections.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represented the magazine, said that it would challenge the law at a later date, the Associated Press reported July 3. “Later cases will provide a better foundation for the Supreme Court to act on the problems created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,” said EEF Legal Director Cindy Cohn.
The American Civil Liberties Union had filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and other groups.
Posted July 8, 2002.
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