May 17, 2002
Free-Speech Group Backs Former Student in DVD-Decoding Case With Movie Industry
The Student Press Law Center, which defends students' free-speech rights, has come out in support of a former computer-engineering student who is embroiled in a lawsuit with the movie industry. Matthew Pavlovich is accused of publishing on the Internet a code to unscramble encrypted DVD's.
If he loses the case, the law center says, the ability of students everywhere to publish freely on the Internet could be stifled.
The DVD Copy Control Association, a movie-industry group,
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