Despite the loss in the 2600 case (Universal City Studios vs. Reimerdes, now on appeal), and the other lawsuits taking place in California and Connecticut over the DeCSS decryption software, the movie studios have completely failed to keep this program off the Web.

In fact, new and improved decryption programs have been released that have made DeCSS obsolete. You can find code and instructions at Flexion.org and Doom9's MPEG Palace.

Of course, you'll also want to visit my famous Gallery of CSS Descramblers.

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David S. Touretzky is a principal scientist in the computer science department and in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University.