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Article: Freedom of speech.(suit against Emmanuel Goldstein for posting DeCSS codes on his Web site)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 5, 2000
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Hollywood and the hacker
IN ONE of the more chilling scenes of George Orwell's "1984", the citizens of Oceania gather in a cinema to denounce Emmanuel Goldstein, a political dissident, as "the Enemy of the People". In New York, for the past two weeks, a team of Hollywood lawyers have been doing much the same to Emmanuel Goldstein, an Internet journalist.
Mr Goldstein, who was born Eric Corley, is the editor of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He posted on his newsletter's website a code known as DeCSS. This code undoes the encryption technologies that protect a digital video disc from being copied. The Hollywood studios are therefore accusing Mr Goldstein of ...