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

[Justin Buist]

Good for Jon, that's for sure, but not so good for the DMCA.  Until somebody's
actually convicted of a violation there's no chance it'll ever get to the
Supreme Court and be struck down as a bogus law.

While I don't want to see an innocent person convicted of anything and have to
suffer through a trial, I -do- want the DMCA to up in front of the Supreme
Court.

Justin Buist



On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:41:54PM -0500, rels wrote:
> 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
> >
> > > 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.
> >
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