(IDG) -- In a case likely to heighten the debate over where fair use rules end and copyright infringement begins, Norwegian authorities last Wednesday indicted 18-year-old Jon Johansen for crimes ...

A California appeals court on Friday reversed a 4-year-old order barring the publication of a DVD-cracking tool on the Internet, finding the injunction violated the defendant's free speech rights. The ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has bowed out of a long-running dispute over a DVD descrambling utility, dealing a preliminary defeat to Hollywood studios and electronics makers. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor ...

It seems like it was yesterday, but we actually first reported on the cracking of DVD encryption back in November 1999 (have a look at the old style news page for blast from the past). 'Twas so long ...

Did you know that DeCSS, the program that you can use to unlock the encryption on a DVD and thus copy its contents to your hard drive (or even transmit it over the Internet, if you've got the time, or ...

After a few weeks of nothing much new to report on the DeCSS case, which has big implications for both the future of DVD and the future of the Internet, there have been a couple of very interesting ...

2600.com has appealed the movie studios' District Court injunction ordering them to remove DeCSS code and links to sites hosting DeCSS. In the meantime, the website continues to list, without linking, ...

I understand that DeCSS has been defended on the grounds that it allows legitimate playback of DVDs on operating systems for which no DVD player exists. Has it been pointed out to the court that every ...

“To post or not to post,” that is the question that the California Supreme Court will be considering as it hears oral arguments Thursday in a case that tests the ability of trade secret protection ...

A California appeals panel reverses a 4-year-old injunction preventing publication of code that breaks Hollywood's DVD encryption scheme. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the Media section at CNET ...

An appellate court in California has reversed a 1999 injunction barring the publication of a DVD-cracking tool on the Internet, finding the earlier decision by a trial judge violated the defendant’s ...