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Jon Johansen DeCSS Trial Next Week

Posted by michael on from the judge-judy-presiding dept.

daniel_howell writes "Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has a story on the imminent start (after delays in finding judges qualified to hear the case) of the trial of local teenage Jon Johansen for helping to write and distribute the DeCSS program to play DVDs on a home computer. The article notes that under Norwegian law it is perfectly legal to make a copy for your own personal use. The Norwegian press is generally supportive of Johansen, and Aftenposten is usually good at posting updates to big stories like this on its English pages, so watch this space to follow the story as it unfolds."

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  1. From Soviet Russia With Love: +1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    #!/usr/bin/perl
    # 472-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz
    # MPEG 2 PS VOB file -> descrambled output on stdout.
    # usage: perl -I :::: qrpff
    # where k1..k5 are the title key bytes in least to most-significant order

    s''$/=\2048;while(){G=29;R=142;if((@a=unqT="C*", _) [20]&48){D=89;_=unqb24,qT,@
    b=map{ord qB8,unqb8,qT,_^$a[--D]}@INC;s/...$/1$&/;Q=unqV,qb2 5,_;H=73;O=$b[4]>8^(P=(E=255)&(Q>>12^Q>>4^Q/8^Q))> 8^(E&(F=(S=O>>14&7^O)
    ^S*8^S>=8
    )+=P+(~F&E))for@ a[128..$#a]}print+qT,@a}';s/[D-HO- U_]/\$$&/g;s

  2. Uhrm? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten"

    As opposed to Slashdotian newspaper Firstenposten?

  3. poor newspaper.... by pulse2600 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They will soon understand what "slashdot virkning" is...