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DVD encryption

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DVD encryption
See CSS and DeCSS.


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Byline: - Staff and wire reports SAN FRANCISCO - The state's highest court said Monday a group licensing DVD encryption software to the motion picture industry cannot use California's courts to sue a Texas man for posting on the Internet the codes to break such software.
The DVD encryption code (called CSS) was originally broken by a 15-year-old Norwegian boy who made the DeCSS decryption program available for free on a Web site.
Programmers familiar with the encryption technology faulted the weakness of the DVD encryption scheme and the carelessness of one DVD manufacturer.
 
 
 
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