US Appeals Court Decision on DeCSS Code and Film Industry Support

In an appeals court filing, the US government praises a lower-court ruling that bans the hacker magazine from posting the DeCSS decryption code Uncle Sam is siding with the movie industry in a case that prevents a magazine from . . . In an appeals court filing, the US government praises a lower-court ruling that bans the hacker magazine from posting the DeCSS decryption code Uncle Sam is siding with the movie industry in a case that prevents a magazine from posting and linking to software that makes it possible to decrypt DVD security.

In a filing submitted to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, the Justice Department lashed out at hackers and praised a lower court ruling that bans hacker magazine 2600 from publishing a code known as DeCSS.

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