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We have just been informed that the DVD Copy Control Association is seeking a restraining order against us (named as "Doe 28") for distributing DeCSS and linking to pages that distribute it and linking to pages that link to pages that distribute it.

Section 48 of this request states that we supposedly "have received notice through the MPA and refused to remove the information at issue". This is absolutely false! We have never received any such request (from the MPA or anybody else for that matter) and we obviously were not given the opportunity to refuse! Either Jared Bobrow needs to go back to law school or the DVD CCA needs to get a new firm. This is the kind of sloppy work that could get an important document thrown out.

Explanation on legality of this information

The software (source as well as binaries) offered on this site can be freely redistributed because it was published under the GNU General Public License. The purpose of this software is not illegal copying of DVD disks. It is meant to provide information necessary to be able to program a DVD player for Linux. To do this, the CSS system needs to be incorporated in the player. Recently the (very weak) DVD content scrambling system was deciphered, freeing the way for a Linux DVD player. The CSS system is not a copy protection system, since it does not prevent copying of the disk. Writing information about the way an encryption scheme functions is completely legal. The source code and binaries on this site are completely legal too, since they contain no code from the DVD consortium or its members. The sources and programs on this site were written by third parties using clean-room reverse engineering methods which are (ready?) completly legal.

Attention

NOTE (Thu, Nov 11, 12:17pm EST): I've recently been informed that a law firm which is likely to be one that would try get these mirrors taken down has been visiting this mirror site as well as others. With that said, there is a possibility that I may have to remove this site in the near future because like everyone else, I can't afford to go to court to fight it. Luckly, it seems fairly unlikely that any law firm will ever be able to get rid of all these mirrors at this point (there are currently 41 in 8 different countries and this list is growing every day). However, I have only seen very few mirror _lists_ like this one anyplace. If anyone has the resources, it might be wise to mirror this list of mirrors as well so that the right people will still know that these mirrors exist.

Here is a 2600 story with more details on how rhythm.cx was shut down.

Current Mirrors

Much thanks to this site for listing mirrors of the mirror lists.

1. http://www.humpin.org/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.humpin.org/decss/decss.tar.gz
   
   
2. http://www.2600.com/news/1999/1112-files/DeCSS.zip/ and http://www.2600.com/news/1999/1112-files/css-auth.tar.gz
   
3. http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/
   
4. http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
   
5. http://www.chello.nl/~f.vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
   
6. http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
   
7. http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
   
8. http://www.vexed.net/CSS
   
9. http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vreeken/
   
10. http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
    
11. http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    
12. http://frozenlinux.com/local/decss/index.html
    
13. http://www.unitycode.org/
    
14. http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
    
15. http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
    
16. http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
    
17. http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
    
18. http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
    
19. http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.html
    
20. http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
    
21. http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
    
22. http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVid.tar.gz
    
23. ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz
    
24. http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~adrian/css/index.html
    
25. http://www.dvd-copy.com/
    
26. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS.zip
    
27. http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
    
28. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
    
29. http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
    
30. http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/dvd.htm
    
31. http://remco.xgov.net/dvd/
    
32. ftp://dvd:dvd@206.98.63.136
    
33. http://www.twistedlogic.com/html/tl_archive_map.htm
    
34. http://munitions.vipul.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
35. http://munitions.polkaroo.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
36. http://munitions.dyn.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
37. http://uk1.munitions.net/software/algorithms/streamciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
38. http://134.100.185.221/decss/
    
39. http://munitions.firenze.linux.it/algorithms/streamciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
40. http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
    
41. http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
    
42. http://killer.discordia.ch/Politics/Copyprotection.phtml
    
43. http://livid.on.openprojects.net
    
44. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Port/3224/
    
45. ftp://ftp.one.net/pub/users/dmahurin/files/software/dvd/
    
46. ftp://ftp.charm.net/pub/usr/home/dutch/ or http://www.charm.net/~dutch/
    
47. http://dsl129.drizzle.com:2001/downloads/DVD/
    
48. http://perso.libertysurf.fr/ortal98/dvd_rip/decss_12b.zip
49. http://users.drak.net/bemann/software/css/css-auth.tar.gz and http://users.drak.net/bemann/software/css/DeCSS.zip
    
50. http://www.angelfire.com/movies/decss
    
51. http://members.tripod.co.uk/bap/css/css.html
    
52. http://www.angelfire.com/myband/decss/
    
53. http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~david/dvd/
    
54. http://www.c0ke.com/DVD/
    
55. http://rockme.virtualave.net/
    
56. http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444t2v/
    
57. http://www.quintessenz.at/q/index.html
    
58. http://www.dvdlinks.co.uk/css/
    
59. http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/tylerbridge/679/dvdcss.html
    
60. http://www.crosswinds.net/~valo/DeCSS/
    
61. http://members.home.com/christopherlee/dvd/
    
62. http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/
    
63. http://63.225.181.97/decss/
    
64. ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
    
65. http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip and http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css-auth.tar.gz
    
66. http://munitions.cifs.org/software/algorithms/streamciphers/decss.tar.gz
    
67. http://www.able-towers.com/~flow/
    
68. http://www.cgocable.net/~jdionne/css/
    
69. http://people.mn.mediaone.net/bojay/slashdot/
    
70. http://www.capital.net/~mazzic
    
71. http://24.108.23.121/DeCSS/
    
72. http://ananke.hack.pl/
    
73. http://www.geocities.com/donotsueme/
    
74. http://members.tripod.com/donotsueme/
    
75. http://donotsueme.homepage.com
    
76. http://www.homestead.com/donotsueme/index.html
    
77. http://donotsueme.freeservers.com/
    
78. http://www.angelfire.com/punk/donotsueme/
    
79. http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~marsie/
    
80. http://209.178.22.9/protest/
    
81. http://www.bard.org.il/~marc/dvd
    
82. http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4360/decss.zip
    
83. http://www.altern.com/tfagart/decss.zip