The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) has dropped it's case against Andrew Bunner who was being accused of infringing California's trade secret laws for distributing a tool known as DeCSS.
DeCSS, originally written by the Norwegian teen Jon Johansen as a tool to allow Linux users to play DVD's, became widely used as tool to decrypt the Content Scrambling System (CSS) which is employed by most DVD's in circulation to prevent the contents being copied and potentially pirated.
DVD Jon was acquitted at the end of last year after a complex legal battle, when the judge decided that copying films that he owned was not in violation of copyright law.
The case against Andrew Burner has been running for four years but was dropped when the DVD CCA decided that CSS no longer employed trade secret technology, which was the basis for their charges. |
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