FC: DVD trial in New York starts over Digital Millennium Copyright Act

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

So I've been in New York covering the DVD lawsuit filed by the movie 
industry against 2600 magazine.

Some (unfortunately digital) photos of the hacker/Linux protests outside 
the courthouse:
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dvd-2600-trial.html

And some participants, including 2600's Emmanuel Goldstein and cryptome's 
John Young:
http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/2600.html

And, of course, Jon Johansen:
http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-10/jon-johansen-3.html

On our way to dinner on Monday after the trial ended for the day we found a 
healthy selection of pirated movies on VHS for $5 each on the street. It 
was a nice irony -- Hollywood attacking DeCSS and ignoring the real 
culprits outside:
http://www.mccullagh.org/image/950-10/emmanuel-goldstein-pirate.html

I bought the X-Men movie. The quality is acceptable; if the origin was a 
video camera pointed at a movie theater screen, at least the pirate used a 
tripod.

A few articles I've written about the trial:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37647,00.html
Movie Studios on the Warpath
by Declan McCullagh
1:25 p.m. Jul. 18, 2000 PDT

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37615,00.html
DeCSS Lawyers Press MPAA
by Declan McCullagh
4:20 p.m. Jul. 17, 2000 PDT

-Declan

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