(IDG) -- The fight over DVD descrambling and the legal issues involved will seemingly not go away, as the battle gained a new combatant last week when a tool to help decrypt DVDs was released onto the ...

SAN FRANCISCO --Internet disclosures of trade secrets aren't protected by the Constitution's free-speech guarantee, the California Supreme Court has ruled in a decision hailed by Hollywood and ...

In the 1995 film Hackers, a cunning security expert working for an oil company hatches an embezzlement scheme. Everything is going according to plan until teenage hackers (including a young Angelina ...

SAN FRANCISCO --California's top prosecutor on Thursday argued that an engineer had acted as a thief and not a free speech advocate when he published on the Internet computer code used to decrypt DVDs ...

MIT student Keith Winstein and alum Marc Horowitz say they're out to prove a point: Publishing code that decrypts and plays DVD movies is not a crime. In their case, they assert it's about teaching ...

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