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So, I’ve been making websites since before CSS was a thing Off topic but I remember when CSS stood for Content Scramble System and was the digital rights manag
by 300bps 5y ago
So, I’ve been making websites since before CSS was a thing
Off topic but I remember when CSS stood for Content Scramble System and was the digital rights management technology on DVDs.
Three people (two unidentified, one in Norway) cracked CSS in 1999 and created an app called DeCSS to remove DVD copy protection.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
The movie industry took this very seriously. They got Norway to raid the home and prosecute the one known author. Hosting a file with the name DeCSS led to copyright infringement complaints.
So some wise guy wrote another app also called DeCSS that had the sole purpose of removing Cascading Stylesheet references from an HTML file. It became one of the most popular hosted applications for a while.
- RNCTX 5y agoI also remember. The previous generation DRM tool (macrovision) only needed a simple ~5 dollar filter to defeat. You could buy aftermarket boxes that would strip it in-line, plug and play style, for about 10-20 dollars in the early 90s. Thankfully for the rest of us, the inevitable failure of all rent-seekers is that rent-seekers don't tend to be very smart / innovative (by definition, I suppose).