DVD II: Jon Johansen begins DVD trial this week
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rodd on 2003/12/02:
„DeCSS is computer software that Johansen and others wrote in an effort to build an independent DVD player for the Linux operating system.“
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„As I've mentioned in November , Jon Lech Johansen , aka DVD-Jon, has broken the copyprotection of iTunes musictracks. This enabled the ACC tracks to be played on Linux systems. This code were to be used to create Playfair, a program which deletes the copyprotection.“http://huminf.uib.no/~st08232/blog/archive/ 000118.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of belzebob, posted on 2004/04/26
„The appellate court bases its opinion on a DVD being vulnerable to injuries to such an extent that the purchaser must be permitted to make a copy, for instance of a movie in which he takes a special interest in preserving. One cannot see that the use of DeCSS represent any great danger for illegal reproduction of DVDs in competition with the movie producers. The legal history and the Berne Convention art 9 stipulates a weighing of interests, but in this case it is the interpretation of the copyright act sect 12 as part of a assessment of criminal law which is the issue, and in such a legal context the unconditional form of the wording of the provisions must, according to the view of the appellate court, be given considerable weight.“http://www.bstandal.com/archives/000114.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of bstandal, posted on 2004/01/07
„AP - A Norwegian man who became a hacker hero for cracking security codes on Hollywood DVDs wants police to compensate him now that he's been acquitted twice of computer piracy, his la“http://www.stargeek.com/item/56110.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„Johansen, now 20, did nothing illegal when he helped crack DVD copy protection codes in 1999 and then publicized how he did it .upheld the earlier acquittal .early Christmas present .“http://www.stargeek.com/item/57390.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„My complaint that I wasn't legally allowed to copy a DVD that I own just in case the original got scratched seemed to hit home the most. That really does sound absurd when you say it out loud. The staff member asked me what I did.“http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/ 003690.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of Donna, posted on 2004/05/15
„Upholding a verdict by a lower court in January, the court said Jon Johansen had broken no law by helping to unlock a code and distribute a computer program on the Internet enabling unauthorized copying of DVD movies.“http://www.themauritius.com/article4012.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„The Norwegian appeals court upheld a January 2003 ruling from an Oslo City Court acquitting Johansen on all counts and rejecting the prosecutor’s theory that Johansen was guilty of violating Norwegian Criminal Code Section 145.2, which outlaws breaking into digital data that one has no right to access. Because Johansen accessed his own DVD and did not commit any copyright infringement the city court found Johansen innocent on all counts.“http://www.netpolicy.com/dnrc/archives/ cat_misc.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„I hope this is sound law (considering I know nothing about Norwegian law and the state of implementation of the European DMCA there) and I wonder what repercussions this will have. After all, this was not a particularly good test case: there was no smoking gun, stacks of pirated DVDs or other pirate paraphenalia on evidence. Just a coder who wanted to read DVDs without using an licensed decoder.“http://www.pressepapiers.net/archives/2003/01/07/ jon_johansen_acquitted.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of Seek, posted on 2003/01/07
„The autumn of 1999 Jon Lech Johansen (“DVD Jon”) with others decrypted the copy control system on DVD records to make it possible to view the DVDs at the Linux operating system. The program that made this possible was called “DeCSS” and released on the Internet. This resulted in him being sued by DVD Copy Control Association in USA, arrested by Norwegian police and charged by The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (ØKOKRIM).“http://efn.no/jonjohansen-en.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„In most newspapers they vagely included the name MoRE, andthat DeCSS was a team effort, but neither MoRE nor DoD likedthe headlines. Jon's comment on this matter is:"I never told the media that I had cracked the dvd encryption.What I told them, was that we (MoRE) had made an app calledDeCSS which would decrypt dvd movies and let them be playedoff your hd, or off dvdrs if you have a dvd burner. I alwaysused _we_ and _MoRE_ when talking to them.“http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/ 000492.html - Cached - Similar Pages
Found at a page of Seth Finkelstein, posted on 2003/12/03
„Jon Johansen of DeCSS fame has done it again. This time he has made it possible to remove the DRM from iTunes. The Register has the story.“http://www.stargeek.com/item/47390.html - Cached - Similar Pages
„Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen of DeCSS fame does his viking ancestors proud with another digital "piracy" tool.“http://www.stargeek.com/item/31448.html - Cached - Similar Pages
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