IP: re: deCSS source code is now public record

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Adams, Larry" <LarryA () tunes com>
> To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Dave,
>
> Slashdot ran this article yesterday:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/24/118240&mode=thread
>
> Apparently the lawyers for the DVD CCA included the source code to deCSS as
> part of the official court documents.  Hence, the source is now public
> record and anyone can go look at it for themselves.  It seems to me that
> this blunder renders moot any injunction the DVD CCA wishes the court to
> make against the defendants, since the key to their trade secret is now part
> of the public domain.
>
> Here is a link to a copy of the legal docs:
>
> http://cryptome.org/dvd-hoy-reply.htm