Criminal Code DVD & DeCSS5/2/2000; 6:04:26 PM Feb 9, 2000: I hate linking to stories after they've made the rounds on the other weblogs, but this one is just so perfect, it could replace my Purpose page. Well, pieces of it anyhow. Every day, in our increasingly networked world, our freedoms and privacy are being stolen from us. And most of us just let it happen -- most of us tend to accept our computer's workings as immutable, that we are chained to an irrational, vindictive, uncontrollable machine destined to rule over our 9-to-5 days.But the machine is not opaque; the rules today need not be the rules of tomorrow.