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"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)."
Fair enough, the bills are quite expensive, does he get a piece of the DeCSS shirts on ThinkGeek? (only half joking)
If nothing else, he might raise more public interest and get donations that way.
Someone sues me and wastes my time (the more important part) and money then you betcha I'd sue back. Although it sounds Jon is just demanding and not suing.
I hope this isn't considered a surprise...to anyone.
:wq
I just had to bitch about something in the article. "It's a modest claim by international standards, amounting to around USD 20,000."
That doesn't matter at all. Does the 150,000NOK have the same purchasing power in Norway as 20,000USD has in the states? If not, the comparison is completely worthless.
If it costs 4CAD for a carton of large eggs here and 24XXX for the same in some fictional country, but the exchange rate is 1XXX for every 2CAD, then they certainly don't have the same purchasing power, do they?
Christopher S. 'coldacid' Charabaruk -- coldacid.net
The little guy doesn't get justice the lawyers get a windfall.
Don't kid yourself, Elderly couple sues walmart because an overstuffed shopping bag broke, psychic sues MRI center for causing loss of psychic abilities, crook sues home owner for injuring him during the course of a burglary. The lawyers win, everyone else gets screwed in ways too numerous to measure.
There is a desperate need for tort reform. There is an even more desperate need to make certain lawyers do not wield total control of the legal process.
National service is a repugnant concept unto itself. Frankly I don't care whether you got out of it for completely selfish reasons, genuine medical reasons or as some sort of protest against the very idea, I am just pleased that you did.
How anybody can be an advocate of forcing someone to spend their time and energy to kill people or assist those doing the killing in some sort of misguided notion of compulsary patriotism is utterly beyond me.
If not wanting to hurt others or put myself into situations where I am likely to suffer injury is cowardly then damn right, put a massive stamp across my forehead and paint a bright yellow stripe up my back, but you sure as hell aren't gonna get me to join the armed forces unless I have good reasons of my own for doing so.
As for taxpayers footing the bill, bloody oath they should, if the taxpayers are trying to force someone to do something that they are not legally required to do then I fail to see any reason on earth why they, the taxpayers, shouldn't cough up for attempting to maintain an injustice. How else do you think systems get shaken up and reevaluated. Ahhh... you come from that world were only those with the cash to back their beliefs have a right to assert their rights and or principles.