DeCSS Trial Begins in The Matrix DVD & DeCSS7/18/2000; 9:16:24 AM 'Pirating DVD on the Internet is not nearly as easy as the entertainment industry claims, attorneys for 2600 magazine suggested during cross-examination Monday.'Eight motion picture studios sued the hacker-zine in January, claiming it illegally distributed the DeCSS utility that facilitates decoding and redistributing DVDs. The trial, which began this week, is the first to test the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.'Frankly, nothing interesting has happened yet, but it has begun and I'm sure there will be updates as events warrent.Or you can go straight to the source: The EFF Page for the trial. You can subscribe to their mailing list. Or enter the land of press releases and executive summaries and see the MPAA Press Release page. (Both are slanted, but the EFF sounds human.)(Note: The odd title of the piece was the original title of the Wired news story, which I liked. They've changed the story's title to "DeCSS Lawyers Press MPAA" (so much more boring), but the HTML page's title is still the "... the Matrix".)