Norwegian hack-monkey Jon Johansen recently found something out. Then he shared what he found with his friends and them with theirs. Now, anyone who wants badly enough to rip a DVD can go right ahead and do it after using Johansen’s now-famoun DeCSS code. Can he withstand the can of legal whoop-ass that will undoubtedly be unleashed upon him?

Apparently, no.

Well, no yet, anyways. The CCA, absolutely shocked that the master coders at Xing could have left a hole so large in their encryption, decided that the only thing to do was sue. And sue the did. The suits filed suits against the code’s author, as well as supporters and perpetrators of the crime. Several people who made the code available publicly have been issued injunctions to stop them from serving up the malicious DeCSS material.

Read about it here.

I hope you got your code already if you wanted it. By the way, if you haven’t already, go get your copy of the infamous DVD X Copy before that’s ripped from the shelves as well.