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Norwegian Programmer Charged for Breaking Copyright Protection on DVD
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Posted by: TotalRecall
The Inquirer reports:
THE MOTION PICTURE Association of America (MPAA) has persuaded authorities in the kingdom of Norway to try a teenager three years after he watched DVDs on a Linux computer using the Linux-based de-scrambling program DeCSS. Which he created.
He's charged with breaking a Norwegian law which prohibits people breaking into others' locked property to get data that they're not supposed to obtain. This is the Norwegian Criminal Code section 145(2).
But Johansen owned the DVD, while the law was used in the past to prevent access to banks, telecomms companies, or other systems to look at others' records.
Apparently this has caused quite a stir. Should he be charged for doing what was necessary to view a legally obtained DVD? C|Net is also covering the story here.
Posted by: Null Actor
These lawsuits are especially bad, IMO, because if enough of them continue to happen, people will become afraid to explore the bounds of technology, for fear of being slapped with a frivolous lawsuit.
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