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Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities
phlawed writes: "This story (norwegian) states that the authorities responsible for investigating economic crime in Norway today (after 2 years of "investigation") charged JLJ for violating a law regarding computer "break-ins", commonly known as the "hacker paragraph". This is for distributing the DeCSS sourcecode. The analysis so far (by media) is that the authorities not necessarily thinks JLJ is guilty, but due to unclear wording in the relevant law they seem to think that the courts should have a look at it... It is worth noting that JLJ has *not* been charged for violating any law regarding IP, piracy or such." I've only found one story in English, which is quite vague. Hopefully the above poster is correct in summarizing the situation.
Here is the same story translated to english.
--- guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people ---
excuse to use vague laws in the hopes that the person under the cracklight...err spotlight would crack. If it happened in the us him, his isp, family, friends and local grocer would be test subjects for the fbis newest violations of the civil liberties.
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