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Looking Back on Jesse Helms' Life
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:14:00 -0400
Sen. No, as he was often called, "was a real throwback," says Merle Black, a professor of southern politics at Emory University. One of a select group of politicians who helped solidify Republican control in the South, he had a loyal constituency of working-class whites in North Carolina.
Financial Aid Woes Make Community College More Appealing
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:05:00 -0400
Despite efforts by the Bush Administration and Congress to quell turmoil in the student loan market, some students are still struggling to find money for college. We examine the case of two recent high school graduates who have been promised financial aid, but don't know how much they can count on.
When Did Flag Pins Become So Important?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Sen. Barack Obama Obama was questioned about why he doesn't always wear a flag pin during a Democratic debate in April. His critics say his lack of pin casts doubt on Obama's patriotism, and recently the Democratic candidate has been wearing one.

The Talk of the Town

The Chill
Nick Paumgarten Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,” for an audience of two dozen or so, you might have concluded, “This is lame,” and slipped back . . .
Oily Speculations
James Surowiecki Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
When bad things happen, it’s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed . . .
Obama’s Iraq Problem
George Packer Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking . . .

 

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2600 Hacker Quarterly News Archive - Article from November 1999 about cracking DVD encryption.

42 Ways to Distribute DeCSS - 42 funny ways to distribute the famous DVD descrambler, including Quake, HTTP cookies, MPEG movies and DNS queries.
Meta Description: [ 42 ways to distribute DeCSS ]

California DeCSS case - Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case.
Meta Description: [ DeCSS Injunction Reversed In CA Case -- article related to The Courts and Your Rights Online. ]

Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System - A paper which shows that CSS encryption has weaknesses which make it rapidly breakable even without knowledge of any hardware keys, and describes algorithms to do so.

DeCSS Central - Reference site on DeCSS with vast background information.

404 DeCSS Central: HAL2001 Speech - Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.

DeCSS for Linux and DVD - Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.

DeCSS/2600 Court of Appeals Decision - Text of the decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the judgement against 2600 in the DeCSS linking case.

500 DVD Backup Guides - A detailed site offering several guides on backing up DVDs into different formats. The author also shares his views on the issue of DeCSS through informative articles.

DVD-Copy.com - Legal Battle - Copies of legal documents filed to shut down this website.
Meta Description: [ DeCSS DVD Copy | Everything you need to know about making copies / backups of your DVD. Contents Scrambling System Source Code, Decryption software ]

Gallery of CSS Descramblers - If DeCSS code is illegal in the USA, but text is protected, where do you draw the line? A gallery of exhibits of the descrambling algorithm from code through plain English to graphic images.

In Defense of Free Speech on the Internet - The Global Internet Liberty Campaign member statement opposing the efforts by the DVD-CAA to censor websites worldwide. Signed by more than fifty global civil liberties organizations.

The Truth About the DVD Case - Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.

404 Trouble with Prime Numbers - Describes technology involved, developments in court cases, and looks at the legal issues involving hyper-linking, trade secrets, freedom of speech, and translation of DeCSS into numerical format.
Meta Description: [ Electronic Law Journals - JILT Homepage ]