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"DVD-Jon" Faces Retrial
An anonymous reader submits: "Norway's special division for white-collar crimes, Økokrim, has decided to appeal the acquittal of 19-year-old Jon Lech Johansen, accused of copyright violation for helping bypass DVD code protection, web site Nettavisen reports."
Økokrim?!? Where's my keyboard's "Ø" key? Norwegians are far out. The tragedy is that Norwegian taxpayers are footing the bill for this seemingly endless lawsuit. A bright kid gets skewered by the courts, at the behest of greedy multinationals, and taxpayers pay for it. "the world only makes sense when you force it to" - Batman, as he's kicking Superman's ass.
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Yes, that's not it was created and there are legit uses, but many people do use it to break the encryption scheme so they can rip and distribute movies. Is this necessarily what we want? If movie companies don't get paid for there work they'll stop making movies, blahda blahda.
Additionally, while this is not a popular idea around here, isn't it the companies right to decide that they only want their disks to play on windows systems? I don't see anyone saying that people should be allowed to hack popular windows only games to run on liniux, so why should movies be different?
Signed: Omicron15
Nothing whatsoever!
Nothing that happens in the politically correct pseudo-communist utopia of Norway has any affect on the US at all.
A higher California court already ruled it's legal to transfer DeCSS over the 'net and to use it for legal purposes.
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Even though this guy got modded down for "flamebait" he's/she's right.
If it weren't for the Bushs' lust/greed for oil we wouldn't have been attacked. Why else would we be "friends" with Israel if not for the want of oil? Because we "like" them?
This is in Norway. US law, US morals, US judgements do not apply here. If they feel it is fair, legal, whatever, that is their system, their law, their right. Try and rememebr that the whole world does not subscribe to American morals nor do they see them as the most superior in the world.
I wonder who lined the pockets of Økokrim to get them to put Jon in retrial. I mean the facts in the case haven't changed, he was found not guilty, and he's too freaking young to be facing these kinds of penalties for doing what he thought (and in my opinion is) a community service.
Let's burn down the Økokrim office buildings.
I just think its funny that Europeans don't have double jeopardy. That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read in my life. You guys don't have any civil rights at all.
Wow.
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