DVD decryption and perl

[Steve Poling]

i particularly liked the DeCSS algorithm description rendered as epic verse
with a haiku metrical structure.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of Steve Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:01 PM
> To: grand-rapids-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> Subject: DVD decryption and perl
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I stumbled onto this site http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ on the
> way to somewhere else.  It has an interesting discussion of the issues
> around DVD decryption triggered by a preliminary injunction in Universal
> City Studios et al. v. Reimerdes et al., prohibiting the defendants from
> distributing computer code for reading encrypted DVDs.
>
> Since the pm group enjoys the bits, I thought perhaps this bit fit.
>
> I especially liked the conflicting court rulings that code is not free
> speech, but text is (now if I use NOTEPAD to create my c code, and NOTEPAD
> is a text editor, that means my c is text and thus free speech
> protected?).
>
> To that end, the site has included DeCSS et al on permanent display.  You
> can see/hear the decrypt code in C, perl (about 500 bytes), dramatic
> readings of source code, the ascii code encoded as a midi file, english (a
> guy wrote a C to english/english to C translator), gif images,
> compilerless
> programming language versions, T shirts, and my personal favorite, haiku.
>
> Regards,
> sj
>