DVD CCA Drops Case; DeCSS Not a Trade Secret

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Appeals court rules DeCSS is no longer a
trade secret

Appeals court rules DeCSS is no longer a
trade secret 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
The Andrew Bunner case may finally be over after an appeals court rules a preliminary injunction against Bunner violated his free speech rights.

Appeal Filed in Apple Trade Secret Case

Appeal Filed in Apple Trade Secret Case 03/23/2005 04:43 PM
The EFF has appealed a court ruling issued earlier this month that would force Web sites to hand over their sources to Apple. California Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled that journalist protections not apply to the sites, as trade secrets were revealed in violation of state law.

DeCSS case dropped

DeCSS case dropped 01/23/2004 03:54 AM
A long battle against an individual hosting the DeCSS code and other web sites that had carried the DeCSS code...

DeCSS case winner: 'DVD Jon'

DeCSS case winner: 'DVD Jon' 12/22/2003 11:23 AM
ZDNet Dec 22 2003 9:52AM ET

EFF: DVD Descrambling Code Not a Trade
Secret

EFF: DVD Descrambling Code Not a Trade
Secret 01/23/2004 12:20 AM
a release from the EFF .. reporting .. reports .. EFF

eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_case/20040122_eff_pr.php
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Lucent trade secret suspect goes on the
run

Lucent trade secret suspect goes on the
run 06/10/2004 05:04 AM
US Marshals hunt fugitive

Trade Secret of Sticky Spiders Revealed

Trade Secret of Sticky Spiders Revealed 04/26/2004 12:41 AM

Recording industry withdraws DVD trade
secret suit

Recording industry withdraws DVD trade
secret suit 01/28/2004 02:17 AM

The industry group representing the DVD format is seeking to withdraw its trade secret suit against the republisher of an encryption-bypassing program. The DVD Copy Control Association ( DVDCCA ) had initiated proceedings to block Andrer Bunner and another from making available DeCSS , which allows users to bypass the DVD format's protections, in order to play files on Linux machines.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation :

DVD CCA effectively gave up a multi-year effort to have republication of the program, called DeCSS, declared a violation of trade secret laws

(via Electronic Frontier Foundation )

Court Rejects Seagate's Trade-Secret
Suit

Court Rejects Seagate's Trade-Secret
Suit 08/27/2004 01:39 PM
A bid by drive maker Seagate Technology to prevent a former executive from joining rival Western Digital Corp. has been rebuffed.

Diebold drops DMCA case

Diebold drops DMCA case 12/02/2003 12:15 PM
USA Today Dec 2 2003 10:51AM ET

Federal Judge Drops FBI Agent Spy Case
(AP)

Federal Judge Drops FBI Agent Spy Case
(AP) 01/06/2005 11:54 PM
AP - A federal judge Thursday dismissed all charges against a Chinese-American woman accused of using a sexual affair with an FBI agent to gain unauthorized access to classified documents.

Israel drops Sharon bribery case

Israel drops Sharon bribery case 06/15/2004 09:57 AM
A corruption probe against Israel's PM has not found enough evidence to charge him, says the attorney general.

Hollywood group drops DVD-copying case

Hollywood group drops DVD-copying case 01/22/2004 05:04 PM
A request by the DVD Copy Control Association to the California courts marks the close of the last prominent legal battle over the DeCSS code.

Hearing in "Think Secret" case postponed

Hearing in "Think Secret" case postponed 04/05/2005 02:22 PM
Blog: A hearing scheduled for next week in Apple's lawsuit against Mac enthusiast site Think Secret has been postponed until May. ...

Electronic Voting Firm Drops Legal Case

Electronic Voting Firm Drops Legal Case 12/02/2003 03:02 AM
AP via Daily Press Dec 2 2003 2:42AM ET

RIAA drops P2P case against dead
non-computer user

RIAA drops P2P case against dead
non-computer user 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: The Recording Industry Association of America is getting soft. RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy announced that they will drop their lawsuit against a woman who died last month at the age of 83 and didn't own a computer.

A group of record companies named Walton as the sole defendant in a federal lawsuit, claiming she made more than 700 songs available for free on the Internet.

Walton's daughter, Robin Chianumba, lived with her mother for the last 17 years and said her mother objected to having a computer in the house.

"My mother wouldn't know how to turn on a computer," Chianumba said.

Link (Thanks, Henry!)

Judge Drops Charges in Mich. Terror Case
(AP)

Judge Drops Charges in Mich. Terror Case
(AP) 09/02/2004 03:24 PM
AP - Acting at the request of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year.

News Organizations Support Bloggers In
Apple Trade Secrets Case

News Organizations Support Bloggers In
Apple Trade Secrets Case 04/11/2005 07:31 PM

More than a half-dozen news organizations are supporting three online journalists who published articles about a top-secret technology product that Apple says was protected by trade secret laws. By Rachel Konrad, Associated Press

News Organizations Support Bloggers In
Apple Trade-Secrets Case (TechWeb)

News Organizations Support Bloggers In
Apple Trade-Secrets Case (TechWeb) 04/13/2005 04:21 AM
TechWeb - Eight of California's largest newspapers and The Associated Press have submitted a court brief seeking to overturn a court ruling ordering three bloggers to reveal their sources to Apple Computer.

DCIA Achieves Milestone of Fifty Members
Trade Association Looks Forward to
Supreme Court Decision in MGM v.
Grokster Case

DCIA Achieves Milestone of Fifty Members
Trade Association Looks Forward to
Supreme Court Decision in MGM v.
Grokster Case 06/17/2005 03:15 PM
The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) announced at the Washington Digital Media Conference today that it has recruited fifty Members since its inception, and expects to surpass that number by its second anniversary on July 1, 2005. [PRWEB Jun 17, 2005]

A secret that stayed secret in the place
where no one can keep a secret

A secret that stayed secret in the place
where no one can keep a secret 02/07/2005 01:37 AM
We may soon know the identity of Deep Throat. It seems that Bob Woodward has penned the obituary of the elusive Deep Throat. There have been no lack of theories for who might actually be Deep Throat. And of course, any political conspiracy theory secret wouldn't be any fun without tying it back to Bush somehow.

After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS

After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS 04/25/2004 08:39 PM
Slashdot Apr 26 2004 0:18AM GMT

After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS

After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS 04/25/2004 04:30 PM

The History of the DeCSS Haiku

The History of the DeCSS Haiku 01/28/2004 08:43 AM
He's SETH DAVID SCHOEN

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Freedom of Speech, or The DeCSS Haiku

Freedom of Speech, or The DeCSS Haiku 01/27/2004 09:54 PM
Seth Schoen: The History of the DeCSS Haiku I wrote the DeCSS Haiku because I was angry at the attempts?

DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins

DeCSS: Jon Johansen Retrial Begins 12/02/2003 11:05 AM

Freedom of Speech, or The DeCSS Haiku

Freedom of Speech, or The DeCSS Haiku 02/10/2004 02:35 AM
Seth Schoen: The History of the DeCSS Haiku I wrote the DeCSS Haiku because I was angry at the attempts?

DeCSS author cleared again on appeal

DeCSS author cleared again on appeal 12/22/2003 01:49 PM
The DeCSS DVD-decryption retrial has ended with another "not guilty" verdict

DeCSS: Jon Johansen Acquitted In Retrial

DeCSS: Jon Johansen Acquitted In Retrial 12/22/2003 09:03 AM

True confessions from the DeCSS Haiku
author

True confessions from the DeCSS Haiku
author 01/27/2004 08:37 PM
After three years, my cow-orker Seth Schoen has broken his hard silence and admitted to writing the DeCSS haiku. In this poem, the algortihm necessary for playing back DVDs is expressed as a series of haiku, despite the fact that such publication is banned under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In this essay, he explains his motivations and the procedure he went through:

Writing the bulk of the poem itself took me around 15 hours over the course of several days, excluding the CSS tables (whose construction I describe below). As Leigh Ann Hildebrand observed, there were classical influences at work in my efforts; I realized immediately that I would need to begin with an invocation of the Muse. (My poetic skills were not up to constructing dactyllic hexameters, and I had already settled on the haiku form.) I used Prof. Touretzky's article "The CSS Decryption Algorithm" as my main source for the technical details, but I set myself a strict rule against using hexadecimal constants, because they seemed unpoetic. Everything had to come back into decimal form, because a number is a number. I also felt that it was important to include passages honoring and praising heroes (even using an epithet in the traditional epic way: "wise Andreas Bogk", only partly metri causa) together with a substantial amount of context. After all, one of the ways long poetry maintains interest is by telling several stories at once, and by painting scenery. Finally, I felt that expressing the fear of censorship directly and repeatedly within the poem itself created an interesting tension. It emphasized that the poem had really been written by a human author with a human voice and his own interests and passions. Aware of the prospect of censorship, the poem confronts would-be censors directly and takes them to task. By contrast, most source code is relatively defenseless: it can't fight against its own suppression, and it gives less direct evidence of being in a human voice, leading some people to accept its stigmatization as "merely mechanical" or "merely functional". I feel that it is essential that the poem constantly pleads for its own life -- an effect accomplished comically yet powerfully by Joe Wecker in "Descramble (This Function Is Void)"

Link

Seth Schoen Reveals Himself Author of
DeCSS Haiku

Seth Schoen Reveals Himself Author of
DeCSS Haiku 01/29/2004 10:58 AM
Slashdot Jan 29 2004 2:14AM GMT

Norwegian Court Acquits DeCSS Author Jon
Johansen - Again

Norwegian Court Acquits DeCSS Author Jon
Johansen - Again 12/22/2003 05:18 PM
Techfocus Dec 22 2003 4:48PM ET

Seth Shoen Reveals Himself Author of
DeCSS Haiku

Seth Shoen Reveals Himself Author of
DeCSS Haiku 01/28/2004 02:33 PM
Slashdot Jan 28 2004 5:07PM GMT

Object Management Group™
(OMG™)

Object Management Group™
(OMG™) 05/24/2004 06:24 AM
Object Management Group™ (OMG™)
http://www.omg.org/

Founded in April 1989 by eleven companies, the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) began independent operations as a not-for-profit corporation. Through the OMG's commitment to developing technically excellent, commercially viable and vendor independent specifications for the software industry, the consortium now includes approximately 800 members. The OMG is moving forward in establishing the Model Driven Architecture ™ as the "Architecture of Choice for a Connected World" ™ through its worldwide standard specifications including CORBA ®, CORBA/IIOP™, the UML™, XMI™, MOF™, Object Services, Internet Facilities and Domain Interface specifications. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA with a subsidiary in Japan. The OMG has international marketing offices in Bahrain, Brazil, Germany, India and the UK, along with a government representative in Washington, D.C.

The OMG was formed to create a component-based software marketplace by accelerating the introduction of standardized object software. The organization's charter includes the establishment of industry guidelines and detailed object management specifications to provide a common framework for application development. Conformance to these specifications will make it possible to develop a heterogeneous computing environment across all major hardware platforms and operating systems. Implementations of OMG specifications can be found on many operating systems across the world today.

The OMG's series of specifications detail the necessary standard interfaces for Distributed Object Computing. Its widely popular Internet protocol IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) is being used as the infrastructure for hundreds of technology companies. OMG specifications are used worldwide to develop and deploy distributed applications for vertical markets, including Manufacturing, Finance, Telecoms, Electronic Commerce, Real-time systems and Health Care.

Feds defend secret law with secret brief

Feds defend secret law with secret brief 09/21/2004 06:23 AM
Cory Doctorow: Bill sez, "The Justice Department continues to demand the right to file a secret brief in Gilmore vs. Ashcroft, a case that involves secret law. In response to a September 10th ruling by the 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals that rejected DOJ's attempt to file their arguments in secret, the DOJ filed a motion asking the Court to reconsider its decision." Link (Thanks, Bill!)

Internet music provider wants copyright
case suspended till US case decided

Internet music provider wants copyright
case suspended till US case decided 02/10/2004 02:47 PM
AFP via Yahoo! Feb 10 2004 5:41PM GMT

Confidence Man - The case for Bush is
the case against him. By William Saletan

Confidence Man - The case for Bush is
the case against him. By William Saletan 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
the full article .. questo articolo .. William Saletan .. Will Saletan's

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PC Case Roundup, Including The Case of
Ultimate Darkness

PC Case Roundup, Including The Case of
Ultimate Darkness 04/20/2004 07:17 AM
ExtremeTech has a nice PC Case Roundup, with samples ranging from the bizarrely-shaped to the cute and cuddly. There's a huge range of options in PC cases these days; the choice is no longer simply 'How much room do I want?' but 'What do I want it to look like?'...

Case Mod: Putting An iMac DV Into An ATX
Case

Case Mod: Putting An iMac DV Into An ATX
Case 01/10/2004 05:36 PM

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