DVD-Jon wins new legal victory

[joeunderdog]

Norway's most famous computer whiz got an early Christmas present on Monday. An appeals court in Oslo upheld Jon Lech Johansen's earlier acquittal on all counts of alleged copyright violations.

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The lower court had ruled that Johansen, now 20, did nothing illegal when he helped crack DVD copy protection codes in 1999 and then publicized how he did it. The prosecution had sought a suspended jail term, confiscation of his computer equipment and a fine of NOK 20,000 (less than USD 3,000).

Prosecutors had put Johansen back on trial earlier this month for his role in creating a software solution that removes copy protection from DVD films. He was dubbed "DVD-Jon" after he helped crack the copy protection code as a teenager and then published it on the Internet.

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http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=696330

Wasn't some MIT student also being terrorized for writing the same program as part of a homework assignment?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. "Yeah baby" kick

:kick:

[bspence]

2. I think you're talking about CDs and a high school report

Some kid wrote about how you could just hold in the 'shift' ket while putting a CD in your computer to bypass the copyprotection stuff. They RIAA was going to sue (or did sue, or something. I forget).

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. They backpedaled

It was too ridiculous, even for them.