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Everything about DeCSS
Free open-source program to decode DVDs with encryption
DeCSS is one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting commercially produced DVD-Video discs. Before the release of DeCSS, free and open source operating systems could not play encrypted video DVDs. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: DeCSSA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: CyberethicsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Software as Protest: The Unexpected Resiliency of U.S.-Based DeCSS Posting and LinkingCited 14 times
- Go sideways: Jon Lech JohansenA closely related topic
- Go sideways: DeCSS haikuA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Software as Protest: The Unexpected Resiliency of U.S.-Based DeCSS Posting and Linking
Who posts DeCSS and why?: A content analysis of Web sites posting DVD circumvention software
The limits of DeCSS posting: a comparison of internet posting of DVD circumvention devices in the European Union and China
DVDs: Cease and DeCSS?
Chasing down the social meaning of DeCSS: Investigating the Internet posting of DVD circumvention software
US says 2600 can’t link to DeCSS
DeCSS legal, rules Californian court
The Norwegian DeCSS Litigation – A DVD Piracy Trial
đź“š Books worth reading
CyberethicsRichard A. Spinello · 2000
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