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

[Fred James]

''The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in
affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass
of the nation only--not from its privileged classes.'' - Mark
Twain

Christopher Baker wrote:

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