[NTLUG:Discuss] Fw: [alg] News in the DeCSS trial

[Christopher Baker]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/20021209/ap_on_hi_te/dvd_kid

"OSLO, Norway (AP) - Norwegian teenager Jon Lech Johansen pleaded innocent
Monday to breaking data security laws in the first day of a widely watched
trial over a program that unlocks the security codes of DVDs. "

Proceedings are expected to last 5 days with a verdict expected a few
weeks after that. Johansen claims that he didn't crack the code and put
together his DeCSS application so that he could play DVD's on Linux (which
to my knowledge is currently not technically legally possible). Here, a
Norweigan is being made to answer in court to a complaint filed by the
*American* Music Association. He is being held responsible for the use of
his software by other people. I find that point interesting when compared
to this story

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