DeCSS source code that allegedly contained trade secrets was protected by First Amendment.(California)

DVD Copy Control Association (DVDCCA) is a trade association of movie industry businesses that license decryption technology referred to as content scramble system (CSS) to manufacturers of hardware and software for playing digital versatile discs (DVDs). [DVD Copy Control Association v. Bunner, No. H021153, 2001 WL 1340619 (Ct. App. 6 CA 11/01/01)]. In October of 1999, DVDCCA learned that a computer program entitled DeCSS had been published on the Internet by a teenager in Norway. DeCSS consists of computer source code that describes a method for playing an encrypted DVD on a non-CSS-equipped DVD player or drive. Soon after its initial publication on the Internet, DeCSS …