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  1. Re:We need to help him. by The+CrapHead! · · Score: 1 · on Jon Johansen Indicted by the MPA(A)
    The dept. that raided Jon Johansen:
    Økokrim
    Postboks 8193 Dep
    0034 Oslo
    Norway
    Phone: +47 22865400
    Fax: +47 22865499
    Email: okokrim@okokrim.no
    Email comp.crime unit: datakrim@okokrim.no

    Prime minister of Norway:
    Kjell Magne Bondevik
    Statsministerens kontor
    Postboks 8001 Dep
    0030 Oslo
    Norway
    Phone: +47 22249090
    Fax: +47 22249500
    Email: statsministeren@smk.dep.telemax.no

    The lawyer representing MPA:
    Espen Tøndel
    Simonsen Musæus DA
    Postboks 727 Sentrum
    0105 Oslo
    Norway
    Phone: +47 22936500
    Fax: +47 22936550
    Email: etondel@simu.no

    Jon Lech Johansen:
    (I've got his address, but I'll leave that out. He probably doesn't need a lot of /. geeks calling or writing now. Send him an email if you want to talk with him.)
    Email: linuxdvd@mmadb.no

  2. Johansen's Homepage 404 by Romen · · Score: 1 · on Jon Johansen Indicted by the MPA(A)

    Jon Johansen's homepage no longer exists. I don't know if this is a sign of the truth of this story, but all information is useful.

  3. Mirrors part 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New DVD Lawsuits Filed by the MPAA (UPDATED)
    This site contains some good technical documentation as well as more source code that the DVD consorium's lawyers would rather you not see:
    http://crypto.gq.nu/


    Semi-broken Mirrors
    (These mirrors sometimes work and sometimes don't)
    http://joe.to/storage/files/decss.zip
    ftp://eris.giga.or.at/pub/hacker/crypt/ DVD/
    http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/files/D eCSS.zip and http://gullii.stu.rpi.edu/dvd/f iles/css-auth.tar.gz
    http://www.discordia.de/decss/DeCSS.zip and http://www.discordia.de/decss/css-aut h_tar.gz and http://www.discordia.de/decss/LiVid.tgz

    Broken Mirrors
    (These are listed here for the notification of the people who run them)
    http://members.theglobe.com/avoiderman/css-auth.ta r.gz
    ftp://mikpos.dyndns.org/pub/cssdvd.zip
    ftp://195.115.63.44/pub/DeCSS.zip
    http://home.c2i.net/buddha9/
    http://frodo.campus.luth.se/~iocc/tip.html
    http://home.t-online.de/home/skinner01/decss.zip
    ftp://ftp.firehead.org/pub/
    http://freeweb.digiweb.com/business/avoiderman/
    http://www.hack.b3.nu/

    Mirrors shut down by The Man
    (A moment of silence, please.)
    http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/css-auth.tar.gz and http://www.rhythm.cx/dvd/DeCSS.zip
    http://dvdcracked.tvheaven.com/index.html
    http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/DeCSS .zip
    http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10079-100-143 3209.html?tag=st.dl.10001_104_3.lst.titl edetail
    http://www.theresistance.net/files.html
    http://cryptome.org/dvd-css.htm
    http://www.d.umn.edu/~dchan/css/
    http://caspian.twu.net/dvd/
    http://mclaughlin.orange.ca.us/~andrew/
    ftp://134.173.94.44
    New mirrors and lists after the December 28th events
    (Added by freedvd, may contain duplicates with the above)
  4. It's Good News But.... by Carnage4Life · · Score: 1 · on DVD Hearing Victory: We Won - For Now
    IIRC today's court appearance is the result of the suit passed by the DVD-CCA against the 72 websites and 21 individuals who posted links to DeCSS. This case was destined to be thrown out for a variety of reasons.
    • Let's not forget that the lawsuit failed to name download.com as well as others that may have had the money to fight this suit and show up the DVD-CCA up to be the conniving bastards we all know them to be. This indicates that the lawsuit was targetted more at open source advocates, linux users and "hackers" in general for daring to go against the DVD-CCA's wishes...this makes it a candidate for
    • anti-SLAPP legislation.Check out the Anti-SLAPP project if you have been SLAPPed by a corporation.
    • The restraining order was trying to make certain forms of linking illegal...yeah right. Sarcastic Courtroom Analogy:"Your Honor, that's like saying that it's illegal for TV reporters to use phrases like 'a murder was committed with a kitchen knife bought at WalMart'...that is the same as linking in a web context.

    So I really don't see this as a big victory.What bothers me is what steps are the DVD-CCA going to take now; Lobby to ban reverse-engineering? Switch player formats and leave everyone with DVD players S.O.L.? Press on with more frivolous lawsuits targetted at developers who can't afford court battles? Allow linux players to develop on their own or develop a proprietary linux player? Change licenses so that we are no longer buying the actual DVDs but instead permission to watch the DVD, meaning we can't do whatever we want with them (of course they'll have to change it for VHS to)?

    Another question I have is "What's up with a countersuit?", the DVD-CCA's entire case is based on the supposition that cracking the algorithm enables pirates to copy DVDs. We all know this is not true...firstly pirates can pirate DVDs with a bit for bit copy and not worry about the encryption, secondly the primary purpose of DeCSS was to play DVDs which is not illegal (that's why MP3 players, cassette players and CD burners are legal) and there's plenty of precedent on DeCSS's side. Does this mean DeCSS will now be available on the original site?
  5. Foil them first: get a copy of the source here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble?

    Go to http://mmadb.no/hwplus/ and grab the LiViD CSS source tarball is (the last link on page). This is a matter of free speach, not free beer.