Bunner injunction
The Bunner injunction was reversed by the Sixth Appellate District!
Here is the decision; I was there in the court for oral argument on this appeal, and I'm very excited to see it come out this way. I plan to have a party to celebrate this next weekend.
Meanwhile, we can hope that the Second Circuit reasons along the same lines in Universal v. Reimerdes -- if it does, we could finally see the dissolution of all the injunctions against the publication of DeCSS (and perhaps IBM will finally start shipping a proper Linux DVD player).
The NewsBytes article on the decision quoted Jeffrey Kessler to the effect that the ruling was a "disaster for the U.S. economy" and "nationally significant across industries". Personally, I think it just stands for the proposition that trade secret protection can be lost once something is no longer secret.
Maybe this decision will be discussed at CPTWG. It would be interesting to be the only person in the room to support it.
I originally wrote a long commentary about the industries which are suing Andrew Bunner, but I'm not going to post that. This is a great night. Let's be optimistic tonight and invite everybody to share in the good news.
