2600 Appeal Rejected

blankmange writes "Wired is reporting that 2600's appeal has been rejected by a federal appeals court. "The Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in a one-line ruling that it was not going to revisit an earlier decision in which 2600 was found to be unlawfully distributing a DVD-descrambling utility. In January 2000, eight movie studios sued the legendary hacker quarterly for posting the DeCSS.exe utility, which decodes DVDs and allows them to be viewed on a Linux computer." The magazine now has 90 days to file a Supreme Court appeal." The Appeals court did not have to take the case, and they didn't. 2600 can appeal to the Supreme Court, but they don't have to take the case either - it's looking more and more as though Kaplan's ruling will stand.

winux?

[Ruliz Galaxor]

"the DeCSS.exe utility, which decodes DVDs and allows them to be viewed on a Linux computer."

Now what? an .exe utility which is made for running under _windows_ and then I can view it on a _linux_ computer?
blargh... when you think you're finally done with the windoze thing, they come up with an .exe
:)

Lawyers

[Banjonardo]

Ok, lawyers, any chance?

For the Supreme Court, I mean?

hack it.

[DarkHelmet]

The appeal has been denied to 2600...

No wait... the website has been changed...

The ruling has been reversed? Hmmm. I wonder how that could have been done?

Shhhhh!!! Duh!

[GMontag]

The first rule of Operation Total Chaos is that we do not talk about Operation Total Chaos.

SO SHUT UP!

What a bunch of morons!

[GuNgA-DiN]

It is a really good thing that the court has protected the movie studios by stopping people from linking to DeCSS! [google.com]. I mean what kind of chaos could ensue if people could link to and find [altavista.com] a copy of this evil program? I mean even companies like Disney would go out of business if people kept distributing [overture.com] this program! I am so glad that linking to DeCSS [lycos.com] is a crime! I feel much safer now.

Funny....

[wowbagger]

Funny, in one court case the defendant repeatedly played games with the court, pissed the judge off, submitted faked evidence, and when the judge expressed his opinion, he was removed from the case and a new judge assigned.

In another court case, the defendand repeatedly played games with the court, pissed the judge off, and didn't submit faked evidence, and when the judge expressed his opinion, he was upheld on appeal.

Funny, that.

T-SHIRTS WITH THIS LOGO PLEASE!!!

[konmaskisin]

"What's so special about the internet that my free speech rights don't apply?"

Good one mate!

Re:maybe you guys should wake up

[Anonymous Coward]

We will. Collectively, we control the Internet, we control every company's data. We control their payroll, their accounting, their ordering, their web site, in some cases, their phones. Geeks have the power to stop the world in it's tracks if we need to. We will prevail, because we can hold the world hostage with the technology that it depends on. The government really doesn't want to drive us to civil disobediance, because we can be incredibly effective at it if we have to.

Now that would be comedy, if on a set date as many techies as possible went on strike all across the globe, all at the same time (or atleast the Americans.. but Im sure others would like a day off too :) )

Watching the world come to a stand still would be divine, and that would really show governments whose in charge!