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There was a legal battle in the early 2000s about circumventing DVD copy protections. The DVD CSS (content scramble system). The court ruling declared that the
by johngalt 12y ago
There was a legal battle in the early 2000s about circumventing DVD copy protections. The DVD CSS (content scramble system). The court ruling declared that the program was a 'copyright circumvention device'. It was illegal to distribute the source code. This lead to people creating illegal t-shirts with the source printed on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
Later the same thing happened for Blu-ray. Only it was an encryption key that was discovered and subsequently illegal to distribute under the DMCA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy