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ksec on July 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Popcorntime is leaving GitHub

Not a lawyer and dont know much about US's law. But i record there was an incident a long time ago about DVD Decrypter and Free Speech. The end was something that you can't hold the source code accountable.

I thought you cant distribute, or have a binary form of program to downloads for your users, but source code of it should be allowed.

Have I misunderstood the story or have things changed?

disastermouse on July 13, 2014 [–]

I think you misunderstood. This appears to be the case you were thinking about: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5930508913825375...

It found that the source code could violate the DMCA even considering free speech. The court forced him to take the DVD decryption source code down.

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