CDR: Judge: "Cyber-Anarchists" (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily News, November 17, 2000)

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 4:37 AM -0800 on 11/17/00, GigaLaw.com wrote:


> Judge in DVD Case Calls Coders "Cyber-Anarchists"
>      U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who sided with the motion picture
> industry in a landmark DVD-descrambling lawsuit this year, said the coders
> who crafted the DeCSS DVD-decrypting utility are "what might be called
> cyber-freedom fighters, or perhaps cyber-anarchists." "Little did I know,
> when I was scribbling away, that (the) decision would receive so much
> attention," Kaplan said at a "Beyond Napster" symposium organized by
> American University's Washington College of Law.
>      Read the article: Wired News @
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40226,00.html
>      Further reading on GigaLaw.com: "Is Hyperlinking Legally at Risk?" @
> http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/isenberg-2000-10-p1.html

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