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Re:boy do i not want that by msauve · 2019-03-26 08:53 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Google Makes Emails More Dynamic With AMP For Email (techcrunch.com)

Not surprising from Google, who insists on encoding even plain text messages as (would have been) shown above, base64. Hell, even /. won't let me post what Google would send -

Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.

And, /. is right. Google is full of clueless Internet noob lameness.

Even plain old HTML is wrong in email.

Yes. I think that pretty much exactly... by msauve · 2006-05-19 07:20 · Score: 2, Insightful · on MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found

what he's saying. email is a text medium, like it or not.

It a medium of communications, and text is the only content which can be assumed to be usable by any recipient. Sending anything other than plain old text, unless there is prior agreement between both sender and receiver, is a hinderance to communications.

http://www.efn.no/html-bad.html

Re:RIAA should address the cause by snillfisk · 2005-08-15 09:24 · Score: 1 · on Recordable Media a Bigger Threat Than Filesharing?

What you can't do is make a copy of the book, or a copy of your CD, and give that to your friend while you keep the original.

Except in countries like "Norway" and a few other civilized parts of the world, where sharing between friends is perfectly legal, and is in fact, protected by law. Certain corporations are of course trying to change this, so it's not easy to say how long it will remain the way that it has been for decades.

More information can probably be found at EFN.

Re:A Name! by caryw · 2005-03-22 14:24 · Score: 1 · on Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again

At least they called him by his name, not just "The iTunes back door guy."

I'm pretty sure his nickname is "dvd jon".
Remember that whole DeCSS thing?
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Let's go the whole mile.. by k98sven · 2004-07-10 05:22 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Commercial DVD Software Comes to Linux

Let's be a bit more precise, since being precise is rather important in legal matters..

What the norwegian court found (in Norwegian) was:

"DVD-Jon" did not have the intention to promote piracy, but to enable playing on Linux, and enable making back-ups of his DVDs.

The court also found that there is a fair-use right to a backup copy. They also found that licenses voiding this right were unenforcable.

They also found that the reverse-engineering done by "the nomad" (not Jon himself) was done in order to obtain interoperability, and thus legal under Norwegian and European (91/250/EEC, article 6) law.

Hence, they found that decrypting DVDs using this information aquired through reverse-engineering in order to create backup-copies was legal.

Basically what I'm saying here, is that from the verdict, it is not clear that he would've been found innocent if the procecution had been able to prove he had created DeCSS with the intent to enable piracy.

So you can't generalize the ruling into "Decrypting DVD's is not illegal in Norway".

EFF ~ EFN in Norway. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-05 06:00 · Score: 1, Informative · on DVD-Jon Completely Clear

In Norway we have an organization similar to the Electronic Frontier Foundtation (EFF). They're called Elektronisk Forpost Norge (EFN). EFN has been collecting information about this case since it started.

Net information about the Jon Johansen ("DVD Jon") case

EFF ~ EFN in Norway. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-05 06:00 · Score: 1, Informative · on DVD-Jon Completely Clear

In Norway we have an organization similar to the Electronic Frontier Foundtation (EFF). They're called Elektronisk Forpost Norge (EFN). EFN has been collecting information about this case since it started.

Net information about the Jon Johansen ("DVD Jon") case

Go Belgium! (I hope this happens here as well) by tuxette · 2004-01-05 01:05 · Score: 5, Insightful · on CD Copy Protection Case Goes to Court

I can see the same thing happening in Norway, as a lot of people are very upset about so-called copy protection disallowing the consumer to play their CDs in any old player or on the computer. Forcing a consumer to play their legally-owned CDs on "approved" players is in violation of Norwegian law. Furthermore, tiny print saying "copy protected" in any other language than Norwegian is also against the law.

Already as early as 2002, EFN (Norway's version of EFF) has launched campaigns against the purchase of certain types of CDs as well as offering assistance in pressing charges against record producers whose CDs damage CD and/or DVD players or computers.

By the way, the verdict against DVD-Jon is NOT going to be appealed!