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• Arts: Movies: Home Video: DVD  (137)
• Computers: Open Source: Open Content  (80)
• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Linux: Hardware Support: DVD  (7)
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• Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System - 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.
• DeCSS Central: HAL2001 Speech - Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.
• DeCSS/2600 Court of Appeals Decision - Text of the decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the judgement against 2600 in the DeCSS linking case.
• DeCSS for Linux and DVD - Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.
• DVD-Copy.com - Legal Battle - Copies of legal documents filed to shut down this website.
• Gallery of CSS Descramblers - 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.
• 2600 Hacker Quarterly News Archive - Article from November 1999 about cracking DVD encryption.
• In Defense of Free Speech on the Internet - 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.
• The Truth About the DVD Case - Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.
• 42 Ways to Distribute DeCSS - 42 funny ways to distribute the famous DVD descrambler, including Quake, HTTP cookies, MPEG movies and DNS queries.

• California DeCSS case - Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case. (November 1, 2001)