The appeals panel is considering the case, and a judgment is expected sometime within the next month or two.
Lawyers for both sides (and a representative of the Department Of Justice, which has intervened on behalf of the studios) appear before a three-judge appellate panel to argue their case.
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In a 93-page opinion, Judge Kaplan sides with the studios, stating that DeCSS is a piracy tool, and ordering 2600 not to post or link to the code.
The case of Universal City Studios, et al vs. Reimerdes, et al--essentially the MPAA vs 2600--goes to court. The trial lasts six days.
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Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York grants a preliminary injunction to the MPAA, restraining Goldstein and the other defendents from posting DeCSS online.
The Motion Picture Association of America files lawsuits in Connecticut and New York against four individuals, including 2600 editor Emmanuel Goldstein, who had posted the DeCSS code, requesting relief under the anticircumvention portions of the DMCA.
Hacker magazine 2600 posts an article discussing the cease-and-desist letters on its Web site, calling them a dangerous suppression of information. It posts a link to the code, as well as links to a number of the censored sites.
After a myriad of sites post the DeCSS code, the Motion Picture Association of America begins sending letters to Web-site operators, threatening to sue if the code isn't removed.
Working with hackers from across Europe in a group called "Masters of Reverse Engineering," Norwegian teenager Jon Johansen writes the DeCSS code, which can strip the encryption from DVD movies, and posts it on the Internet.
President Clinton signs the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. The act, designed to extend copyright protections to digital works, contains key clauses that make it illegal to break encryption built into commercial software or to distribute devices that break encryption.
