Article: DVD'd to Death.(Motion Picture Association of America wins injunction against DVD-encryption descrambling program DeCSS)(Brief Article)

When it came to extending copyright protection to the digital realm, content owners over the past few years have harped on the need to go after pirates and other outlaws who try to make money by stealing and reselling copyrighted works. Honest folks like Internet service providers (ISPs) had nothing to fear, we were told. That turns out to be a lie.

In New York in January, a U.S. district judge sided with the Motion Picture Association of America, the movie industry's powerful lobbying arm, granting a preliminary injunction against site operators who posted a DVD-encryption descrambling program that, in theory, might be used to make perfect copies of DVDs. The ...

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