DVD hack in 7 Perl lines

Two MIT programmers have produced a DVD decryption program using only seven lines of Perl code. Their "qrpff" program does the same thing that the DeCSS utility does. Eight movie studios sued and forced 2600 Magazine to remove the DeCSS source code from its Website. The new hack is small enough to include in an e-mail sig files.

One of the two writers said, "I think there's some value in demonstrating how simple these things really are and how preposterous it is to try to restrict their distribution."

The source article is at wired.com.