The spread of strong consumer encryption technology around the globe is inevitable;
The encryption genie is out of the bottle.
So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.
All too often, vital electronic evidence has been made unavailable through encryption that doesn't allow for execution of legal process including court-approved search warrants.
User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.
