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Posted the deCSS source code which enabled the decryption of DVDs
Eight major movie studios filed Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Universal City Studios served as the lead plaintiff among the eight major motion picture studios. The Norwegian programmer's home was raided by police. He faced possible jail sentence of two years and large fines.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The studios sought an injunction that would prohibit the distribution and use of the DeCSS program, as well as monetary damages.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's ruling but recognized computer programs as protected speech.
The source code that sparked a digital rights revolution. This code enabled free and open source operating systems (such as BSD and Linux) to play encrypted video DVDs for the first time.
The Reimerdes case was groundbreaking as the first circuit-level test of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. Key legal principles established: