"DVD-Jon" Demands Compensation

orzetto writes "Jon Lech Johansen, known as DVD-Jon, and aquitted in a trial in Norway, after being accused of infringement for making a GUI for DeCSS, is now demanding that Norwegian Oekokrim pay for all the time and money he has lost to the trial, claiming 150,000 NOK (about 17,500 euros)."

Comments

Re:You win, don't pay

[dhamsaic]

And therefore, your idea is clearly re-fucking-tarded.

What about: "I would have been working, bitch"

[dark-br]

As a programer how much money would have him made if he were working on all the time he lost on trials and stuff?

I would plea for that kind of money. The 22.000,00 USD would be more like it if he was Indian, but he's not.

Re:FYI

[Fnkmaster]

How the hell do they get lawyers to work at government rates? I just don't understand Europe. How do you get a _good_ lawyer rather than just a lawyer? Wouldn't everybody want a good lawyer and nobody want a crappy one, and thus the competition to get a good lawyer (who is paid for by the gov't) be fierce? Or is there just much more supply than demand for legal services?

I honestly don't understand how that system could work well. It reminds me of the medical system in England where you get to wait with a bum knee for 2 years if you want an operation at a good hospital but can get it in 6 months at a shitty hospital, and get it immediately if you pay for it out of your own pocket. I have always assumed that is generally the way this kind of socialism works when put into practice with the providers of professional services.

Re:Norway 'protects' ?

[Pig Hogger]

Your 'individual liberty' may include such non-concepts as 'freedom from hunger', but its often people who espouse such statements that are the greatest threat to actual liberty - property rights.

What a prime example of a typical head-up-his-ass yankee that is totally incapable of understanding that other cultures can have a totally different viewpoint than the terminally constipated anglo-saxon viewpoint on private property.

Individual liberty and dignity are far more important than property rights. And property rights shall NEVER BE USED to demean human dignity and liberty.

That is, if you use your property to oppress someone else, it is only fair that you'd be deprived of your property.

Re:FYI

[Fnkmaster]

Sorry, but I have about 10 close friends who are British and British expats in the US, and that is based on stories and anecdotes they have told me. I claimed no special "understanding" of the system, only made the factual statement that in the case of non-critical ailments, other factors are used to allocate scarce resources, such as waiting lists, which are longer in some locations than in others. That's not my understanding, it's just true - I didn't make a normative statement about whether this system was good or bad, whether it was effective at identifying the most serious problems, or whether people were generally more happy with that system than the system in the US.

I never claimed to "understand" Norweigian lawyers, I was merely asking a simple question about the economics of the legal profession in Norway, which was answered nicely by the explanation that legal education is paid for by the state, wages for lawyers are moderate and predictable, so the supply of lawyers trained is presumably fairly moderate and doesn't consist of people looking to earn lots of money. And the demand for lawyers is not huge since there is less use of the courts - I guess that means one rarely _needs_ a good lawyer. Presumably there is not as much difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer since the people who would be really good or really bad are probably driven to other professions. This might explain why other factors don't come into play in allocating the supply of legal services at fixed rates.

Anyway, it's a very interesting economic question, it's not rubbish, and you just make yourself look like a fuckhead for suggesting it is.