DeCSS
Sign in to saveright|thumb|A fragment of the DeCSS code, which can be used by a computer to circumvent a DVD's copy protection.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Developer
- Jon Lech Johansen
- Image
- DeCSS.PNG
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- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- source code repository URL
- web.cs.dal.ca/~hannon/decss.c
- publication date
- 1999-10-06
- software version identifier
- 1.1b
- programmed in
- Q15777
- inception
- 1999-10-00
- Commons category
- DeCSS (software)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Origins and history
- Jon Lech Johansen's involvement
- Technology and derived works
- Legal response
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
right|thumb|A fragment of the DeCSS code, which can be used by a computer to circumvent a DVD's copy protection.
DeCSS is one of the first free computer programs capable of decrypting commercially produced DVD-Video discs. Before the release of DeCSS, free and open source operating systems (such as BSD and Linux) could not play encrypted video DVDs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DeCSS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.