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The Helsinki District Court has dealt another blow to CSS, the copy-protection scheme used in commercial DVDs. In a ruling issued today, the court found that CSS is “ineffective” as a form of DRM and that the two defendants cited for violating Finnish copyright law were not guilty.

After Finland’s copyright laws were changed in late 2005 to harmonize with a 2001 EU copyright directive, a group of Finnish copyright activists put up a web site that echoed information that has been easily available on the Internet (and T-shirts) for years: how to crack and circumvent CSS. They then turned themselves into the policy for violating Finland’s new copyright laws.

Two of the activists were charged with illegally manufacturing and distributing a circumventing product along with providing a service to “circumvent an effective technological measure.” During the court proceedings, expert witnesses testified as to the ineffectiveness of CSS as a DRM system, an argument the court found compelling. “[S]ince a Norwegian hacker succeeded in circumventing CSS protection used in DVDs in 1999, end-users have been able to get with easy tens of similar circumventing software from the Internet even free of charge,” wrote the court. “Some operating systems come with this kind of software pre-installed…. CSS protection can no longer be held ‘effective’ as defined in law.”

The decision may be appealed by the government, which apparently brought the case independent of the copyright holders or the DVD Copy Control Association, which administers CSS. Given the fact that the Helsinki District Court is at the bottom of Finland’s legal system, this case is by no means precedent setting. continue reading…

Someone has claimed to have hacked the Advanced Access Copy System (AACS) copy protection used on HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs and posted the script and a video to “prove it.” Claiming to have spent just 8 days tweaking some code, a web forum poster created BackupHDDVD, a Java app that will apparently decode a movie and store it to a PC hard drive. As the Home Media article points out, HD discs do include a second level of protection that was not claimed to be hacked and companies will certainly work to counteract the hack.

My favorite response to the YouTube video posted: “Sad that your next video will be from Prison.”

Think it was really hacked? Let us know what you think or if you can verify that it actually works.

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