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Johansen Trial Underway

Posted by michael on from the wheels-of-justice dept.

Info is trickling in about Jon Johansen's trial In Norway, where he is accused of violating Norwegian law. Aftenposten and VG Nett have stories, and there's at least one amateur account of the trial. The trial is supposed to last a week, and I'm sure Slashdot will keep up with it, so please submit only *new* stories about it, thanks.

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  1. Is Johansen a saint by nutshell42 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    An interesting link which was posted in the heise-forum:

    http://www.debian.org/~kju/decsstruth.txt

    in short:

    He stole the source, violated the GPL and didn't even have a linux-box.

    I don't know whether it's true but it sounds convincing

    --
    Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
  2. Prosecutor got the charge wrong by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    State prosecutor Inger Marie Sunde claimed in an Oslo city court Monday that Jon Lech Johansen is guilty of breaching protection mechanisms in DVDs, ...

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    The DVD itself is not altered. The protection mechanism that is being bypassed is in the DVD player.