How did the online community respond to the lawsuit threats?
When the first whispers began to spread that legal action was being taken – namely, when Derek Fawcus first mentioned on the LiViD mailing list that copyright charges against him were being explored – it became clear to many that the “DeCSS” technology could easily be silenced and removed from online distribution. It is not known who posted the first “mirror” – an independently hosted copy of the program – but in the weeks following the beginning of November, 1999 hundreds and thousands of websites, FTP sites and even email mirrors appeared around the world. Each of these distribution points were established for a single goal – spread the program as widely as possible, in as many hands as possible. The theory went that even if a handful of individuals were forced to remove the code, there were far too many mirrors in far too many jurisdictions to ever force DeCSS technology out of circulation. This strategy was dubbed by one unknown individual as the “Whack The Mole” strategy – one clu
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