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.
http://www.gilc.org/speech/DVD-CSS.html

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.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/

DeCSS for Linux and DVD

Information about and links to various encryption and decryption tools for educational and research purposes.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/

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.
http://www.insecure.org/news/cryptanalysis_of_contents_scrambling_system.htm

California DeCSS case

Offers links to documents in California DeCSS case.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/01/1953236

DeCSS Central

Reference site on DeCSS with vast background information.
http://web.lemuria.org/DeCSS/

DeCSS Central: HAL2001 Speech

Cogent presentation about the history of CSS and DeCSS and the issues involved.
http://www.lemuria.org/decss/hal2001.html

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.
http://www.2600.com/news/112801-files/universal.html

The Truth About the DVD Case

Explanation of the court cases for DVD reverse engineering and some facts about DVD privacy.
http://bladeenc.mp3.no/articles/decss.html

2600 Hacker Quarterly News Archive

Article from November 1999 about cracking DVD encryption.
http://www.2600.com/news/archive.shtml?month-year=11-1999

DVD-Copy.com - Legal Battle

Copies of legal documents filed to shut down this website.
http://www.dvd-copy.com/legal/index.html

42 Ways to Distribute DeCSS

42 funny ways to distribute the famous DVD descrambler, including Quake, HTTP cookies, MPEG movies and DNS queries.
http://decss.zoy.org/

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.
http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/02-3/guadamuz.html

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.
http://www.doom9.net/