[KLUG Advocacy] OT: DeCSS author found "not guilty"

rels advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:41:54 -0500


FYI - another decision for the "good" guys?

First Dimitri ... now Jon ... hhhhhmmmmm

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>
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=4&u=/nm/2003
0107/tc_nm/tech_norway_hacker_dc
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> > Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager, was cleared of
> > DVD piracy charges on Tuesday in a landmark trial
> > brought on behalf of major Hollywood studios.
> >
> > The Oslo court said Jon Johansen had not broken
> > the law when he helped unlock a code and distribute a
> > computer program enabling unauthorized copying of DVD movies.
>