The
Electronic Frontier Foundation announced today that online and print publisher 2600 Magazine will not seek U.S. Supreme Court review of a court order prohibiting publishing or linking to the DeCSS computer program. This decision ends the publication's two-and-a-half year legal battle over DeCSS, which permits DVD owners to use players that the entertainment industry has not approved. [
JD's New Media Musings]
A Polish Teenager Stars in Her Own Film Noir Melodrama. Aleksandra Gietner, thief, escape artist, budding drunk and talented young woman, has fascinated Poland as the inscrutable star of her own melodrama. By Ian Fisher. [
New York Times: Movies]
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