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https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0013.html

A CSS (DVD encryption scheme) decryption program converted from C to English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS#Legal_response

https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0012.html

Ah, I remember LibDVDCSS, mplayer waiting to decrypt the key for 20 minutes (just once, then it was catched) to play a new movie.

Wow, what a blast from the past. I wrote an article for TPJ a bajillion years ago and there it is https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_2/tpj0502-0007.html

I used to really enjoy this magazine. There was quite a bit of diversity in the articles. I found it particularly interesting to see how Perl was being used in various endeavors.

I had an entry in issue #7 in the Obfuscated Perl contest. I took second place in the best "The Perl Journal" printed output competition.

https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_3/tpj0203-0012.html

A lot of the content from these issues was collected in the O'Reilly book Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture.

I admit I chuckled when I saw an headline from Issue #4, Winter 1996.

--- use Lovecraft qw(cthulhu); ---

"A Napster Client Library" "DeCSS" "The 0th annual obfuscated code contest"

Good old times :-)

19 issues, 1996-2000

Wow, the beauty of history!