Comment Judge contradicts himself (Score 1) 737
Facts, definition of CSS:
The means now in use, Content Scramble System or CSS, is an encryption-based security and authentication system that requires the use of appropriately configured hardware such as a DVD player or a computer DVD drive to decrypt, unscramble and play back, but not copy, motion pictures on DVDs. (emphesis mine)
note: here he seems to understand that CSS decryption is required to play back but not to make copies.
footnote 14:
"Second, even if DeCSS were intended and usable solely to permit the playing, and not the copying,..." note: now he's parrotting the studio lawyers in claiming that DeCSS is being used to make copies.