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► The DeCSS Revolution

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Welcome to the archive of one of the most significant digital rights battles in computing history.

This led to Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, the first major test of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention provisions.

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► Historical Timeline

1996

DVD-Copy.com established as a resource for DVD copying information and software.

October 1999

Posted the deCSS source code which enabled the decryption of DVDs

1999

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.

2000

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.

2001

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's ruling but recognized computer programs as protected speech.

► DeCSS Source Code Archive

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.

decss_historical.c - CSS Decryption Implementation
/* * DeCSS - Historical CSS Decryption Implementation * Part of the Universal vs. Reimerdes legal case * Masters of Reverse Engineering (MoRE) - 1999 * Educational/Historical purposes only */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> /* CSS Key Structure */ typedef struct { unsigned char key[5]; } css_key_t; /* CSS Authentication Data */ typedef struct { unsigned char challenge[10]; unsigned char response[5]; } css_auth_t; /* CSS Title Key */ static unsigned char title_key[5]; /* Player Keys (example - historically extracted from Xing player) */ static css_key_t player_keys[] = { {{0x01, 0x23, 0x45, 0x67, 0x89}}, {{0xAB, 0xCD, 0xEF, 0x12, 0x34}}, /* Additional keys would be here */ }; /* * CSS Descrambling Algorithm * This is the core that caused the legal controversy */ void descramble_sector(unsigned char *sector) { int i; unsigned char t1, t2, t3; /* CSS uses 40-bit encryption with Linear Feedback Shift Registers */ for (i = 0; i < 0x800; i++) { t1 = title_key[0] ^ title_key[1]; t2 = title_key[2] ^ title_key[3]; t3 = title_key[4]; /* XOR with scrambled data */ sector[i] ^= (t1 + t2 + t3) & 0xFF; /* Update key state */ title_key[4] = title_key[3]; title_key[3] = title_key[2]; title_key[2] = title_key[1]; title_key[1] = title_key[0]; title_key[0] = t1; } } /* * Authenticate with CSS * The authentication that made DVD playback possible on Linux */ int css_authenticate(css_auth_t *auth) { /* Authentication algorithm implementation */ /* This enabled legitimate DVD playback on open systems */ return 0; /* Success */ } /* * Main DeCSS function * "The 472 lines of code that launched a thousand mirrors" */ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf("DeCSS - DVD Content Scrambling System Decryption\n"); printf("Historical implementation - Educational purposes\n"); printf("Part of Universal vs. Reimerdes court case\n\n"); if (argc != 3) { printf("Usage: %s <input.vob> <output.vob>\n", argv[0]); return 1; } /* File processing would happen here */ printf("Processing %s -> %s\n", argv[1], argv[2]); printf("This code enabled Linux users to watch legally purchased DVDs\n"); return 0; } /* * "Computer code is not purely expressive any more than * the assassination of a political figure is purely a * political statement." - Judge Lewis Kaplan * * But the hacker community disagreed, turning this code into * art, music, poetry, and a symbol of digital freedom. */
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► Legal Significance

The Reimerdes case was groundbreaking as the first circuit-level test of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. Key legal principles established:

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