2600 doesn't appeal

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Aron Schatz
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July 5, 2002
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The Hacker Quarterly doesn't want to appeal in the linking of DVD Copy protection code.

The major movies studios sued 2600 in 1999 as part of a broad legal effort to stop the distribution of code that can be used to playback DVDs on computers, known as DeCSS. Developed by open-source programmers, DeCSS quickly spread online and eventually morphed into gestures of protest against Hollywood's legal attacks to restrain it, appearing in poems, songs, T-shirts and ties.

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