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Online Rights Group Won't Appeal DVD Case To Supreme Court
Posted by Kevin Chen on Wednesday, July 03 @ 18:29:25 EDT Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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An online civil liberties group is throwing up the white flag in a closely watched case brought by Hollywood studios against an Internet publisher who posted a DVD descrambling code on the Web.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for constitutional freedoms on the Web, has decided not to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling handed down in November that sided with the studios.

In that ruling, viewed as one of the first major tests of a 1998 digital copyright law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit barred an online hacker magazine publisher from posting the DVD-cracking code and rejected EFF's arguments that the law was unconstitutional.

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