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California judge rules free speech wins out over protecting secrets on internet.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| November 01, 2001 | Mintz, Howard | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SAN JOSE, Calif._Ruling that free speech deserves more protection than trade secrets in cyberspace, a state appeals court dealt a blow Thursday to the DVD industry in its legal fight to prevent Web sites from posting software to unscramble the encryption on DVDs.

Concluding that First Amendment rights trump California's stringent trade secrets laws, the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose overturned an injunction that in practice has blocked dozens of Web sites from distributing DeCSS, a popular method for cracking the encryption scheme used by the industry to prevent copying of digital versatile disks.

DVDs are an increasingly popular medium for ...

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