Movie Studios Admit DeCSS Not Related to Piracy (July 18, 2000) DVD & DeCSS7/19/2000; 8:35:46 AM 'The movie studios next called to the stand Robert Schumann, who owns a company called Cinea that receives more than 50% of its yearly income from the MPAA and the Proskaur Rose law firm. Schumann stated his expertise comes largely from being the chief architect of the DiVX security system, .... Schumann's affidavit and testimony that DeCSS was created to be a tool of piracy was severely undermined on cross-examination by EFF's defense team when asked about a report he submitted to the MPAA concluding that members of the Livid mailing list (where DeCSS was published) were attempting to build a Linux DVD player. After the defense asked Schumann whether the studios have found any infringement at all related to DeCSS, they [the movie studios] agreed to stipulate that they have no evidence of a single instance of illegal copying attributable to the software which they are demanding the court ban.'Fascinating... this is almost the exact inverse of the Napster trial. In the Napster trial, a software program that is very heavily used for piracy (as the music companies define it) is defending itself on the claim that it is used legitimately (among other defenses). The music studios claim Napster should be shut down because of all the illegitimate use; it's probably fair to claim this is the sole claim they have to shutting it down.Here, the movie studios claim DeCSS has the exclusive use of piracy of movies, and that it should be banned, but in this case are utterly unable to find anyone that has actually used it in this fashion. There is however a project that uses it to play DVDs for legitimate purposes, I believe, or will soon. But because this legitimate tool might someday be used for piracy, it should be banned.However, this isn't an example of legal hypocrisy, because the movie studio's defense,'The studios' argued infringement of copyrights is irrelevant to whether anyone has violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.'is of course correct. The DMCA doesn't talk about intent or use, only the use of a tool for the purpose of breaking protection, period.