CAN HYPERLINKS BE OUTLAWED?

“Only last week a California judge ruled, in a case brought by Ticketmaster against Tickets.com, that it’s not illegal for one site to link to another.” So what is the Motion Picture Association of America doing filing a motion to criminalize links to DeCSS, a program that decrypts DVDs so people can play them on Linux-based operating systems? – Salon 04/06/00