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DeCSS

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DeCSSDecryption of Contents Scrambling System (DVD)


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DVD Jon," did not intend his DeCSS software to be used to pirate DVDs.
The teenager, Jon Lech Johansen, now 19, became known as ``DVD-Jon'' in 1999 after developing a program called DeCSS that enables users to unlock security codes that prevent them from copying DVDs.
Although the purpose of the DeCSS program was to play DVD movies on computers running Linux operating systems, the industry complained it also could allow users to make unauthorized copies of those movies.
 
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