DeCSS timeline
2000
- August 17.In the MPAA vs DeCSS case, judge Kaplan
(New York District) says DeCSS is not free speech but an
encryption circumvention device and as such illegal under the DMCA.
Distribution, via downloading or linking,
is considered to be illegal in New York. [ CNet | Slashdot |
Final
Judgement (pdf) ]
- March 6. MPAA files suit against 2600.com who hosts a list
of links to sites carrying DeCSS. [ Wired
]
- Januari 24. Jon Johansen gets indicted, arrested and is held
for questioning. [ slashdot |
CNET ]
- Januari 21. A preliminary injunction is issued against "website
operators" who host the DeCSS program. [ slashdot | cryptome ]
- Januari 19. The source to the CSS de-scrambling routines
appear in hardcopy court proceedings, which are immediately put online
and mirrored worldwide. [ cryptome | wwcn ]
1999
- December 28. The DVD-CA files suit against individuals who
host DeCSS on their websites, for distributing a device "designed" to
circumvent copy-protections. [ CNET ]
- December 17. The MPAA revokes the Xing Player keys that were
used in DeCSS. [ USA Today ]
- November 28. WWCN mirror of DeCSS related stuff put online at
http://www.wwcn.org/~grit/free
- November 9. Jon Johansen takes all DeCSS related stuff off the web in reaction
to a legal letter he received November 8. [
LiVid ]
- November 4. The big media are picking up the availability of
the DVD decryption tool [ CNET ]
- October 27. Frank Andrew Stevenson posts a working brute-force playerkey
cracker.
[
LiVid ]
- October 6. DeCSS 1.1b for Windows was released. [
LiVid ]
- September 22. LiVid list takes notice of the cracking of CSS.
[
LiVid ]
- September 22. DoD releases "speedripper 1.0", a Windows application to read
a DVD. [
LiVid ]
- mid September. DoD (Drink or Die) manages to get CSS descrambling
code working [ LiVid
]. The code was sent to the LiVid list (via contact-person Derek Fawcus) [
LiVid ] He is not the only one on the right track, MoRE (Master of
Reverse Engineering, a german hacker) is doing independent work.
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