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.
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- 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.