Hacker magazine 2600 has filed a request for the reversal of an earlier US court ruling prohibiting the publication of the DeCSS DVD decrypting software. The move comes just days after Norwegian authorities indicted Jon Johansen, the creator of the DeCSS tool. With the backing of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 2600 is claiming that "free speech principles should not turn upon newly minted distinctions between pen-and-ink and point-and-click".
EFF legal director Cindy Cohn noted: "By permitting publication of code in an online magazine, the Second Circuit [Appeals Court] would recognise that internet speech is fully protected by the First Amendment as established by the US Supreme Court."
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