The Technopolitics of Haiku
Now help me, Muse, for
I wish to tell a piece of
controversial math.
Seth Schoen
discusses some of the background and process for his 2001 "DeCSS Haiku," the 456-hakiu-long work that embedded technical information on copying DVDs,
information that was formally illegal in the U.S. under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
(The film industry
recently withdrew its lawsuit against hundreds of people who posted the DeCSS code; an appellate court in Norway upheld the acquittal of Jon Johansen, the teen who originally cracked the CSS protection system for DVDs.)
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Posted by johndan at January 28, 2004 12:48 PM
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