DeCSS: the lawyers goof!

From: Ziana Astralos (zianastralos@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 18:54:35 MST


http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33922,00.html

"DVD Lawyers Make Secret Public"
'Lawyers representing the DVD industry got caught in
an embarrassing gaffe when they filed a lawsuit and
accidentally publicized the computer code they wanted
to keep secret.

The DVD Copy Control Association included its "trade
secret" source code in court documents, but forgot to
ask the judge to seal them from public scrutiny.'

- the article's intro

Onward,
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