- In Defense of Free Speech on the Internet - http://www.gilc.org/speech/DVD-CSS.html
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.
- Gallery of CSS Descramblers - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
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.
- DeCSS for Linux and DVD - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/
Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.
- Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System - http://www.insecure.org/news/cryptanalysis_of_contents_scrambling_system.htm
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.
- California DeCSS case - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/01/1953236
Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case.
- DeCSS Central - http://web.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
Reference site on DeCSS with vast background information.
- DeCSS Central: HAL2001 Speech - http://www.lemuria.org/decss/hal2001.html
Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.
- DeCSS/2600 Court of Appeals Decision - http://www.2600.com/news/112801-files/universal.html
Text of the decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the judgement against 2600 in the DeCSS linking case.
- The Truth About the DVD Case - http://bladeenc.mp3.no/articles/decss.html
Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.
- 42 Ways to Distribute DeCSS - http://decss.zoy.org/
42 funny ways to distribute the famous DVD descrambler, including Quake, HTTP cookies, MPEG movies and DNS queries.
- Trouble with Prime Numbers - http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-3/guadamuz.html
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.
- DVD Backup Guides - http://www.doom9.net/
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.
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