contributed by Mazzic and Macki
The DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., (DVD CCA) a non-profit trade association, has named 21 defendants and 500 John Doe's in a lawsuit filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants misappropriated 'trade secrets' and 'proprietary information' and distributed the information via their web sites. The defendants, by posting DeCSS software, caused the illegal pirating of the motion picture industry's copyrighted content contained on DVDs.

E-mail from the California law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP notified the defendants late yesterday afternoon that they are seeking a restraining order from the court.

DeCSS was independantly developed in Norway earlier this year. The software allows the playing and copying of DVD movies on Linux computer systems. Apparently the mirroring of the DeCSS software was enough to turn ordinary people into criminals who want to destroy the entire motion picture industry and ruin all that is good in the world.

(I would really like to know how a county court can process an injunction that is valid in 12 states and eleven countries?)

HNN's copy of the legal complaint
2600.com - One of the defendants
DeCSS Defense Site
DVD Copy Control Association

contributed by webmaster
Check your web site (or anyone else's) for 64 known CGI vulnerabilities in seconds. If you have new vulnerabilities not included in the scanner you can submit them here

Web Based CGI Scanner

contributed by Joey
L0pht Heavy Industries, the premier hacker think tank, has been honored by Slashdot as the next victim in their community interview process. So far many of the proposed questions are very interesting and should illicit some great responses. Ad your voice to the fray.

Slashdot.org

contributed by Evil Wench
Instead of properly securing public access systems and remaining vigilant over the New Years holiday the Air Force has decide to retreat and deny the public its right to information. Fearing online attacks over the upcoming holiday they have decided to shut down some public web sites which they hope will protect them from attack. (Your web site will have the same holes on New Years day as it will the day after.)

Associated Press - via Yahoo

contributed by erewhon
The Swedish government has issued orders for the armed forces to train cyber soldiers to protect the nations infrastructure from attack as well as destroy hostile systems. (Once again the mainstream media is months behind the times. HNN reported on this story back in July.)

Associated Press - via Washington Post
HNN Archive for July 14, 1999