Why DeCCS IS a form of expression. (Score 1)

You miss the point -- it's not a matter of whether writing code involves creativity or not. It's a matter of whether DeCSS is a form of expression, and clearly it is. Imagine an author with some technical background became fascinated by the copy control mechanism "CSS". Imagine this author studied the mechanism, spent significant time researching it, then for the benefit of his readers wrote an article describing how the mechanism works, its weaknesses and its nature. Would this article be a form of expression? Of course it would. In many ways, expressing these items in code is so much more effective (and efficient) than expressing them in a natural language. The Dr. Touretzky's life work involves studying systems security -- he expresses himself in articles and in code which exercise his understanding of the systems he studies. Personally, I derive a lot more information about CSS from the DeCSS code than I would from an article describing it; to me, DeCSS is CLEARLY expressive. Imagine how limited the professor would be in his work as a computer scientist if he was precluded from expressing his understanding of systems' security in the form of computer code. -Chernyakov