This page is a mirror of http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/.



What this is for, some comments on the legal status and a disclaimer - go to the disclaimer page.

Yes, this page is rough, colorless and everything. I don't have time for the fancy stuff, this is all about content.

Update 28/Dec/1999: Living in interesting times. Yesterday evening, me and several others received an e-mail from a california law firm. Personally, I think of it as harrassment, and threat. Aside from the fact that what they want to show the court is simply factually wrong in several places.
A copy of the conversation and any other relevant details can be found on it's own page, here. It'll be updated as I get more info.
I am also putting up a site for those hit by this obvious attempt of the DVD consortium to get what they want by threat. Please visit the DeCSS Defense Site if you are a victim or if you are in a position to supply us with any help (legal council, financil resources, media attention or anything else). Several of us plan to not yield to pressure and instead let them find out in court just how weak their case actually is. We are, however, lacking the resources to go up against someone as big as the DVD consortium with the MPAA behind it.
"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." - A.J. Liebling
"Justice in court is limited to those who own one." - me. Maybe a bit heavy, but not too far off. In the world we live in today, if you don't have the resources, your rights can be easily stripped from you.

Update 29/Dec/1999: 2600 as well as humpin.org and now finally lemuria as well are proud to report that thanks to the legal harrassment we are currently receiving, the net number of mirrors (i.e. new ones minus ones that went down) has actually increased over the past 48 hours. I would like to thank Weil, Gotshal and Manges - their actions have spread the facts about the CSS decryption wider and faster than we could have done without them in twice the time.


you can download the following files from here:
decss121b.zip - DeCSS v1.21b (Windows)
DeCSS.zip - DeCSS (Windows)
css-auth.tar.gz - CSS authentication source
LiVid.tgz - Linux DVD Code
nist-0.6.tgz - beginnings of a Linux DVD player

MD5 Sums:

9d0d8a71aa3b146d70b6f923da693d19  decss121b.zip
d0aff684327a5c7bf110951e42ec3cae  DeCSS.zip
8653090161e8f287d365132acb098581  css-auth.tar.gz
a940de43a3c20895cf56bbca75c6d7a7  LiVid.tgz
95965e75cffb22acda0f50a442afae4e  nist-0.6.tgz

Known Mirrors (as of 29/Dec/1999, 12:30 GMT):

Sites that copied this site (lemuria.org):

http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~david/dvd/
http://www.c0ke.com/DVD/
http://rockme.virtualave.net/
http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444t2v/
http://www.quintessenz.at/q/index.html
http://www.tasam.com/~fenkt/dvd/
http://sitebuilder.liveuniverse.com/web2/00186/decss/
http://www.capital.net/~mazzic
http://Niebla.Com.Mx/decss/

http://www.homestead.com/avoiderman/files/index.html and http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/avoiderman/ and http://www.intelcities.com/Main_Street/Avoiderman/ and http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/dvd.htm
http://members.xoom.com/lkjhgfdsa2/

Other sites where DeCSS, css-auth and/or LiVid are mirrored:

http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/ (full mirror list only, no software)
http://www.chello.nl/~f.vanwaveren/css-auth/css-auth.tar.gz
http://www.vexed.net/CSS
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~j.vreeken/
http://www.dvd.eavy.de/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.dvd.eavy.de/DeCSS.zip
http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.eavy.net/stuff/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/DeCSS.zip and http://www.dynamsol.com/satanix/css-auth.tar.gz
http://frozenlinux.com/local/decss/
http://www.humpin.org/decss/ (up again)
http://www.unitycode.org/
http://dirtass.beyatch.net/decss.zip
http://www.free-dvd.org.lu/
http://batman.jytol.fi/~vuori/dvd/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/CSS.html
http://plato.nebulanet.net:88/css/
http://www.logorrhea.com/main.html
http://people.delphi.com/salfter/LiVid.tar.gz
ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.tar.gz and ftp://193.219.56.32/pub/dvd/LiVid.CVS-11.06.css-stuff-only.tar.gz (slow)
http://merlin.keble.ox.ac.uk/~adrian/css/index.html
http://www.dvd-copy.com/
http://therapy.endorphin.org/DVD/
http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-auth_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz
http://www.dvdlinks.co.uk/css/
http://www.twistedlogic.com/html/tl_archive_map.htm
http://www.hack.b3.nu/
http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/css/
http://www.frankw.net/decss
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Embassy/7769/DeCSS.zip
http://xempt.darpa.org:81/decss/
http://www.jonhanson.com/dvd/ (up again)
http://descss.gq.nu/
http://www.scwc.net/DeCSS
http://www.flypop.com/

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/8877/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/popefelix/
http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/jvz/
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/mirror/
http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.sent.freeserve.co.uk/DeCSS.zip
http://members.tripod.co.uk/bap/css/css.html
http://www.angelfire.com/myband/decss/
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/tylerbridge/679/dvdcss.html
http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/

Mirrors that appear to have gone down since 12/Nov/1999:

http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
http://www.xs4all.nl/~predator/freecss/freecss.html
http://sharedlib.org/decss.zip
http://decss.tripod.com/index.html
ftp://134.173.94.44/
http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/DeCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/css-auth.tar.gz
ftp://alma.dhs.org/pub/DVD/
http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS.zip
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/DVD/
http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/DVD/
http://209.68.37.134/decss/
http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
http://www.crosswinds.net/~valo/DeCSS/
http://www.devzero.org/freecss.html
http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip



Mirrors that appear to have gone down since 27/Dec/1999:

http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/mirrors/www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/dvd/css/DeCSS.zip
http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
http://www.capital.net/~wooly/

There is also a very good list of mirrors in the "legal notice" I received. I've cut it out here, but I've not bothered to convert it to HTML. Update: Someone else has, so you can have an HTML version, including hyperlinks, here.

The following site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consortium's lawyers would rather you not see:
http://crypto.gq.nu/
Local Mirror: /DeCSS/crypto.gq.nu

You can contact me at tom@lemuria.org if you have any questions regarding mirroring, or want your mirror added here.

Note to the DVD Consortium and the movie industry:

Are we pirates and criminals? No, we are not, sir! We are just fed up with your head-up-your-ass attitude. CSS was a joke, region codes are ridiculous and your whole protectionism is both stupid and harmful to both customers and yourself. I, for example, would have never bought a DVD drive if this crack had not happened, because my operating system of choice is Linux and you didn't deem me and 12+ million others important enough to make sure there's a DVD player for it available. So reverse-engineering CSS was the only way to make it happen. I'm glad someone did, and it was only after that happened that I went out and bought a DVD drive.
As a customer, I feel like you're pulling my leg with all this protectionism. I am willing to buy DVD movies. But what is all this bullshit with "can't do screenshots", "can only set region code 5 times" and all the other stupidity? It'll definitely not stop a professional pirate. It does, however, make my life as a consumer more difficult.
Either you are a bunch of complete idiots, or someone fooled you so big that I'd like to talk to you about that bridge in Brooklyn I have for sale...


Note to lawyers and other scum:1

This is not your playground, dig? We know you have the ability to involve yourself in everything, and no doubt will you turn all this into a big legal mess, no matter how little merit to the case there is. After all, you do make money, no matter how stupid it makes your clients look, right?
But this still ain't your playground. You cannot destroy information by harrassing those who distribute it. Get out your history books. It never worked, it only sparked revolution.
You don't know what you're doing, but that is not an excuse.


Note to DVD CCA et al:

Although you are an organization, I will for the moment pretend that you are also human beings. As such, have you ever taken into consideration that human beings, when talking to each other as human beings, often are quite reasonable and usually come to a compromise? Seems that the cluetrain hasn't yet stopped at your place, has it?


Other things

If you're interested in learning what else I do on the web, you can go check out the rest of my website.


Footnote about lawyers:
I have a very strong opinion about this parasitic class within our culture, but I do realize that there are exceptions. I just consider them rare enough to not invalidate my general statements. If you want some more of it, look here.