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  • From: "Thomas Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] breaking news: deCSS programmer acquitted!
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:59:17 -0500 (EST)

This just in:
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/01/07/dvd_case/index.html

This is my favorite part:

"Head judge Irene Sogn said people cannot be
convicted of breaking into their own property.
Sogn said prosecutors failed to prove that
Johansen or others had used the program to
access illegal pirate copies of films."

"``The court finds that someone who buys a DVD
film that has been legally produced has legal
access to the film. Something else would apply
if the film had been an illegal ... pirate copy,"
the three-member Oslo City Court said in a
unanimous 25-page ruling."

Chalk one up for the good guys.

TaB





  • [internetworkers] breaking news: deCSS programmer acquitted!, Thomas Beckett, 01/07/2003

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