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Re: DVD CCA Emergency Hearing to seal DeCSS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Jan 26 19:34:39 2000

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:23:05 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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John Young wrote:
> 
> This is becoming picayune but:
> 
> I'm told that the court has now sealed Exhibits A and B of Hoy's
> declaration. These are the DeCSS notes and the CSS scramble
> code. However, the sealing applies only to the paper versions
> and will prevent hardcopying.

I think you have to agree that they should be allowed to do this.
Clearly, if the very thing I'm trying to supress is used in evidence, I
should get the benefit of the doubt until proven wrong. Think of
pictures of you in the bath.

Of course, once its been demonstrated that we have every right to see
you in the bath, those pictures are public domain :-)

> Denying access to online versions will require some other action.

I'm intrigued to know why?

Cheers,

Ben.

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