Matthew Pavlovich, founder of the LiViD project and president of the Dallas-based technology startup Media Driver, testified Friday that DeCSS was critical in developing a Linux-based DVD player.

CNN: Focus on the DeCSS trial

In a month, the first release of the LiViD DVD player should be available, said Pavlovich, and it will be free -- free as in both free speech and free beer.

CNN: Focus on the DeCSS trial

The peasants, who had a shrewder idea of how Mother Russia functioned, thought it more likely that this evidence of progress, if that was the correct name for it, was somehow related to the purchase, several months earlier, of the late and little lamented Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria's sprawling wooden dacha by a man identified only as the Oligarkh.

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