[Patents] US court says publishing DeCSS is legal

[srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

I suspect the case will be overturned.  The judges in the case were
ignorant of many software engineering concepts, which renders their
decision suspect.

For example, they stated that their are no ideas disclosed in object
code, which distinguishes object code from source code as speech.
This is false.  There are entire conferences on reverse engineering
object code and binary code into source code and system architectures
- IEEE has an annual conference just on such tools.

If they got this wrong (due to the court's lack of interest in getting
its law clerks to investigate software engineering when ruling on
software cases), who knows what else is wrong in their assumptions.

Greg Aharonian