We offer James Tyre's Brief of Amici Curiae on behalf of 17 cryptographers, professors and scientists, for appeal of the MPAA v. 2600 judgment: http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bac.htm The amici: Harold Abelson Andrew W. Appel Dan Boneh Edward W. Felten Robert Harper Andy Hertzfeld Brian Kernighan Marvin Minsky James Morris P.J. Plauger James C. Reynolds Ronald Rivest Avi Rubin Barbara Simons Eugene H. Spafford Richard Stallman David S. Touretzky