Author: JT Smith
Here’s Wired.com’s take on Tuesday’s DeCSS hearing. “To the U.S. government, a DVD descrambling utility is akin to terrorware that could crash airplanes, disrupt
hospital equipment and imperil human lives.
hospital equipment and imperil human lives.
On Tuesday, an assistant U.S. attorney told a federal appeals court hearing arguments in the Universal Studios v. Reimerdes
et al case that the DeCSS utility, which the Motion Picture Association of America has sued to take off a website, should be
banned. Attorney Daniel Alter likened DeCSS to ‘software programs that shut down navigational programs in
airplanes or smoke detectors in hotels.’ He warned: ‘That software creates a very real possibility of harm.
That is precisely what is at stake here.’ ”