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(It's an excerpt from newsletter I've sent today; I thought it was fitting to post it here as well)And lastly, in the spirit of April Fools’ Day, here’s a story of a digital rebellion that started 25 years ago.It all started in 1999, when a 15 year old Norwegian reverse engineered Hollywood’s unbreakable DVD encryption (the Content Scramble System) and wrote a tiny program called DeCSS. His goal? Simply to play DVDs on Linux. Hollywood’s reaction? Full blown panic. Studios sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), demanding DeCSS be erased from the internet. But what followed wasn’t just a legal battle - it was a circus of absurdity.If an executable code - as ruled by a US judg

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