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It was a bad week for anti-copyright forces everywhere as the hacker website 2600 also lost in court in an appeal. 2600 had argued that they had the right to publish deCSS software on their site, a program that decrypts DVDs. I am inclined to agree with this analysis from Wired News: "Now, all of a sudden, repealing the reviled DMCA through FirstCRLFAmendment litigation seems altogether unlikely. Nor, given how much Washington politicians adore the law, is Congress likely to alter it." But this raises the question: now what?

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