Text of the decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the judgement against 2600 in the DeCSS linking case.
The Global Internet Liberty Campaign member statement opposing the efforts by the DVD-CAA to censor websites worldwide. Signed by more than fifty global civil liberties organizations.
If DeCSS code is illegal in the USA, but text is protected, where do you draw the line? A gallery of exhibits of the descrambling algorithm from code through plain English to graphic images.
Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.
A paper which shows that CSS encryption has weaknesses which make it rapidly breakable even without knowledge of any hardware keys, and describes algorithms to do so.
Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case.
Reference site on DeCSS with vast background information.
Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.
Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.
Article from November 1999 about cracking DVD encryption.
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