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"DVD-Jon" Faces Retrial

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-got-no-money-honey dept.

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."

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  1. You know what the lawyers say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...if at first you don't succeed: trial, trial again.

  2. doo doo doo doo doo doo doooooo.. by XaXXon · · Score: 4, Funny
    And now our categories in Double Jepardy:
    • The Norwegian judicial process
    • "DVD" player. Note that "DVD" is in quotes
    • Famous Jons in history
    • Content Monopolies of the 21st century
    • Not so fair use
    • and finally, CowboyNeal's favorite movies


    Good luck contestants...
  3. Sven, we cood be famoos, yah? by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lars: Sven, we hate thees job, yah?
    Sven: Yah.
    Lars: Always giving trooble to the dirty accountants and such, yah?
    Sven: Yah. Lars, eets very boring.
    Lars: So Sven, lets go after thees kid, Jon Lech Johansen. He ees famous, does theengs with compooters.
    Sven: Yah. We cood be on T.V.
    Lars: Yah. Famoos.

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  4. Re:You can appeal an ACQUITTAL in Norway? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe there are ways around this even in the US -- the prosecution can ask to have the original trial declared a mistrial if they can show that the original trial was conducted improperly, or some such. And of course there's always the possibility of trying people for different charges relating to the same crime, as in the Federal civil rights trial of the cops in the Rodney King case after they were acquitted of State assault charges. The Norwegian deal might be something like one of these two -- the article certainly didn't give much detail. Anyone who knows more, please feel free to correct me.

    The real lesson here, I think, is that The Forces Of Evil never rest in their attempts to persecute hackers for actions that should not, by any sane measure, be crimes at all. This is apparently no less true in Norway than anywhere else.

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  5. RTFA by VFVTHUNTER · · Score: 4, Funny

    from the article:

    The head of Økokrim's computer crimes division said that the reasons for the appeal would be in their offices Monday afternoon.

    I guess they had a meeting with the MPAA today?

  6. Re:You can appeal an ACQUITTAL in Norway? by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 3, Funny

    the prosecution can ask to have the original trial declared a mistrial if they can show that the original trial was conducted improperly

    Not after the verdict is in. Then, jeopardy is attached.

    Jeez, don't you ever watch "Law and Order"?