A bad week for Fair

A bad week for Fair Use advocates. On Wednesday, the Supremes ruled that 2600 Magazine wasn't engaging in protected speech when it published the code for DeCSS, a utility that lets users play legitimately purchased DVDs on legitimately purchased DVD players, but still cheeses off the MPAA, who claim that it's a piracy tool. Next a court in Jersey yesterday ruled against Edward Felton, who was intimidated out of publishing an academic paper deconstructing the security model of the Secure Digital Music Initiative by a nastygram from the RIAA. The court ruled that the RIAA hadn't done anything naughty, and that Felton's perceived intimidation didn't justify a ruling postively upholding the right of scientists to publish security papers despite the DMCA. LinkDiscuss