So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

I don't like closed systems.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.