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DVD Hacker Reviews
Step-by-step instructions for modifying most commercially available DVD players. Brief but useful.
DVD
DVD fan page offers technical information on why the product is being promoted as the 'hottest' consumer electronics product ever.
Computer Archive
More clarificcation on the DVD regional codes from this site.
One To One: Breaking Down The Barriers
Industry analyst Barry Fox draws some interesting comparisons between the manipulation of the DVD format and the still-birth fate of LaserDisc in this informative article. Also demolishes the supposed NTSC/PAL chasm that is offered as an excuse for Regional Coding.
The Satellite Crypt Site
An excellent collection of resources from Europe on DVD and satellite broadcast hacking. Information not found elsewhere.
DVD Piracy: It Can Be Done
This article Wired News article (November 1, 1999) announced the hacking of DeCSS, and offered clarification on the current technical bottlenecks that prevent the spread of DVD piracy on a large scale.
The DVD Hack: What Next?
This Wired News article (November 4, 1999) announced the existence of DVD hacking and detailed how the Xing Technologies code was cracked.
Product/Info Exchange Program
Information on DVD hacking; free cable TV; phone phreaking and more. Step by step instructions.
Code Free DVD: Regional Codes Explained
From the very informative 'ode Free DVD site, here is a summary of DVD regional coding. Other resources include DVD ROMs, upgrades and more.
Movie Studios File DVD Hack Suit
This Wired News article (January 14, 2000) details the US movie studio counter-attack to several sites promoting the DeCSS software, which the sites claim is simply needed to run movies on Linux operating system equipped computers.
DVD Case: It's A Linux Thing
This Wired News article (January 28, 2000) examines the links between DVD and Linux. States Don Marti: "The idea that this DVD CSS case is about illegally copying movies is completely false. If it had anything to do with illegally copying movies, we would see an illegally copied movie in evidence. So far, there isn't one bootleg DVD, there isn't an offer to sell or trade a bootleg DVD. There isn't so much as a chat room log about bootleg DVDs."
DVD Case: Battle Of The Basics
This Wired News article (January 20, 2000) examines the three key lawsuits surrounding DVDs and intellectual property.
DVDs That Self Destruct
This Wired News article (January 20, 2000) explores the steps that a Rhode Island company is taking to develop a time-limit on DVDs as a defence against software piracy.
DVD Hearing: Suits Meet Geeks
This Wired News article (January 18, 2000) takes a look at how the DVD encryption debate has entered RSA encryption territory during a recent conference.
Geeks Get Their Day In Court
This Wired News article (December 29, 1999) offers coverage of geek solidarity against the DVD industry who is filing lawsuits against hackers for distributing allegedly proprietary source code over the Internet.
DVD Round 1 Goes To Hackers
This Wired News article (December 29, 1999) covers early wins by the hacker community against the DVD industry.
Case Hinges On Reverse Hack
This Wired News article (December 28, 1999) examines the dichotomy between legal hacking and attempts to destroy the DVD industry.
DVD Lawyers Make Secret Public
This Wired News article (January 26, 2000) reveals that DVD industry lawyers included allegedly proprietary source code in their lawsuit filing, but forgot to keep the computer code secret.
More Bad News For DVD Hackers
This Wired News article (January 24, 2000) covers a legal judgement against DeCSS code-hackers, preventing them from propagating the code over the Internet.
DVD Hackers Take A Hit In NY
This Wired News article (January 21, 2000) covers an early MPAA victory against DeCSS code-hackers.
Small Win For CA DVD Hackers
DVD code-hackers in a California lawsuit gained a small win when the trial judge refused to let the DVD Copy Control Association submit code-bearing T-shirts into evidence.
DVD Judge Needs More Time
This Wired News article (January 18, 2000) covered delays by Santa Clara County Judge William J. Elfving in a key DVD encryption lawsuit.
Blame US Regs For DVD Hack
This Wired News article (November 11, 1999) covered how poor export controls by the US government enabled foreign code-hackers to break the DeCSS code.
Why The DVD Hack Was A Cinch
This Wired News article (November 2, 1999) explained how the European code-hackers broke DeCSS and revealed a link to 'Xing Technologies' and decryption keys.
Judge Rags On DVD Hackers
This Wired News article (February 3, 2000) features commentary by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on the negative outcome of a key early case relating to DeCSS. Note that the DVD defendants are labelled 'hackers' even when there was no evidence of contra DVD movie smuggling. How legal cases are psychologically framed is sometimes the most important battle of all.
Hackers A No-show At Protest Over DVD Decryption Hoo-ha
This digitalMASS article (February 7, 2000) covers DVD protests and the selling of DVD encryption keys: "The hackers, then, are standing on principle, fighting for their right to dismantle and study software whenever they please. The movie industry, for its part, points to law protecting trade secrets. The DVD encryption system is just such a secret, they say, and the creators of DeCSS smashed the lock, rather than pay $10,000 for a copy of the key."
Criminal Code?
This Salon magazine article (February 9, 2000) covers the computer community's campaign to free Norwegian hacker Jon Johansen, at the center of debate for the DeCSS.
DeCSS Decoy
This Salon magazine article (February 22, 2000) by Damien Cave explores attempts to stop prosecutors searching for the outlawed 'DeCSS' encryption utility by stripping 'Cascading Style Sheets' (CSS) from HTML documents.
DVD Player At Apex Of Controversy
This Wired News article (March 21, 2000) concerns the controversial Apex AD-600A player, which can remove the DVD 'Content Scrambling System' (CSS).
Geeks Protest, Nobody Comes
This Wired News article (March 28, 2000) outlines the failure of the DVD/Linux-oriented 'Million Geek March'!
Legal DVD For Penguin-Heads
This Wired News article (March 31, 2000) details the strategic moves by InterVideo, a firm with a longstanding Content Scrambling System (CSS) license to market an open source product for the Linux platform that enables computers to play DVDs.
The Disc Master
This Salon magazine article (March 23, 2000) by Michael Sragow is an interview with Criterion Collection's Peter Becker, regarded as a master compiler of contemporary DVD releases.
DVD Cracking Case Heats Up
This CNet News article (May 11, 2000) by Patricia Jacobus details developments in the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) prosecution of publisher Eric Corley.
Planet DVD
DVD code-free resources, online discussion forums, and one of the largest collection of international links (particularly European sites) available.
HAVi
Home Audio/Video Interoperability (HAVi) will affect DVD piracy and hacking - get the specifications and details from this well-documented site.
Bruce Sterling: The Hacker Crackdown
The complete text of Bruce Sterling's classic book The Hacker Crackdown book, very useful for background research.
DVD-Copy.com
A provocative site devoted to the DeCSS code and networking between DVD users who wish to trade movies over the Internet. Includes CSS information in C source code; hints on copying from DVD to your VCR and cryptoanalysis references.
Krackdown.com: Experiments In New Mediums
A Weird Web Art experimental site implicated in DeCSS encryption software and online networking between DVD users online. Who knows what is really going on here?
DVD Copy Control Association
The DVD-CCA is the industry body that licences CSS technology: "DVD-CCA supercedes the Interim Licensing Organization in providing this service to Content Providers, Information Technology companies and Consumer Electronics companies worldwide."
DVD Utils.net
One of the most popular industry DVD sites (based in France), covering news, research, worldwide prices and more.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
This site is an excellent resource for privacy issues and institutional analysis.
Memorandium Opinion
This is the thirty page decision by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan to end the distribution of the DeCSS utility over the Internet. Kaplan felt that the hacking community had promoted very poor arguments in support of their case. Read the legal judgement and form your own opinion.
Open DVD
Formed in response to early lawsuits, Open DVD is an activist organization campaigning against what it perceives as bullying by major movie industry players to suppress Linux-based DeCSS code-breaking software. Consider the issue and get involved!
DVD DeCSS Verified Mirroring Website Database
This site states it is "a database of DeCSS websites. When you submit a URL, our webserver will check that webpage for the word 'DeCSS' to keep an updated accounting of sites that are still linking." Fight online censorship of DeCSS by using this resourceful Web site!
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