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Free speech and the DeCSS case
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bellovin)
Wed Jul 26 16:50:25 2000
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:52:06 -0400
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According to today's Wall Street Journal, the judge in the DeCSS case
against 2600 publisher Eric Corley (better known as Emmanuel Goldstein)
has asked both sides to submit briefs on whether or not software is
speech, and hence protected by the First Amendment.
--Steve Bellovin
