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South Bend Hacker's Club: Free DVD Cracking Tools Against MPAA

Calendar May 07, 2001 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Responding to the movie industry's efforts to ban controversial DVD-cracking software, a group called the South Bend Hacker's Club has launched a Web site that offers free downloads of the encryption-breaking code. The site, located at , includes vitriolic criticisms of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and allows visitors to download as many as 20 variants of the DVD-cracking software.

"I would definitely consider computer code as an art, and art is definitely protected by the First Amendment," site operator Keith Kimmel said. Kimmel's company, Synergy Global Networks, oversees the South Bend Hacker's Club and owns the fuckmpaa.com Internet address.

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Responding to the movie industry's efforts to ban controversial DVD-cracking software, a group called the South Bend Hacker's Club has launched a Web site that offers free downloads of the encryption-breaking code. The site, located at , includes vitriolic criticisms of . . .