Jon Johansen DeCSS Trial Next Week

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."

Comments

So many other programs

[Mirell]

What I don't see is why the MPAA focused on just the first program that was made available, deCSS, when now it is basically completely worthless with any new DVDs released today. It was a first generation decoder. That key has already been shelfed, and now you have such things as DVD Ripper, et cetera, which decode, rip the DVD, make a new IFO, all in one step. It's not like the RIAA vs. Peer 2 Peer shairing, where it can take down major nodes, and shatter the network. You may still own a copy of Napster, but it's completely worthless (Unless you try to use it to connect to OpenNap networks, but why not use WinMX then), while people with copies of DVD Ripper, if they rid the Internet of that program, will be just as useful as they were before.

Just my two bits...and a byte...haha...