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Jon Johansen To Be Retried On Piracy Charges
cecil36 writes "Yahoo has the scoop on 'DVD Jon's' latest trial regarding DeCSS being used as a piracy tool. The article claims that Hollywood is losing $3 billion a year due to piracy *yawn*, but Johansen's lawyer believes the acquittal from the previous trial may be enough for him to win the case. The case is set to go again on December 2nd this year. What are the prospects of Johansen winning a second time?"
Just set the evil bit for any content decoded by DeCSS.
DeCSS is a terrorist tool and should be stopped. We cannot allow people to terrorize the MPAA members (who are all poor and starving) like this.
Go get em PATRIOT act, watching Men In Black II without paying for it or ever having intention of paying for it in the first place is a serious crime. (to yourself! ever SEEN that POS?)
What does he expect. If you go sailing around the carribean, stealing gold from the spaniards while waving a cutlass and crying "shiver me timbers", you can expect the authorities to try you on piracy charges. The sooner we send this scourge of the seaways to Davy Jones' locker, the better. Hang him from the yard arm, I say!
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
One has to wonder how much of that 3 billion is attributed to lawyer fees.
No firearm is an "obviously offensive weapons" any more than a SUV is an "obvioulsy offensive vehicle". Both are just objects. Both can be used to kill. Both can be modified to be more efficent at killing.
And SUVs are used to kill *far* more people each year than guns are.
But we're talking about knives...YOU aren't a professional chef with a license. So you don't need anything sharper than, say, a plastic spoon.
When's the last time you had to skin a bear? See, ya don't need one. You can buy rope at the length you need, or use safety-scissors.Knives are used to cut objects including people.
In almost any modern society (processed meats, cheese, etc) You don't need one.
Otherwise, since piracy = terrorism, the evil regime in Oslo would be supporting terrorism, and we'll soon have triggerhappy american soldiers on our doorstep coming to "liberate" us.
Trial, Trial, Trial again.