[Another example of how desperate and morally bankrupt Hollywood has become.]

From: "Cory Doctorow" <doctorow@craphound.com> Mailing-List: list boingboing-mailblog@yahoogroups.com; contact boingboing-mailblog-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list boingboing-mailblog@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 23:26:50 -0800 Subject: [Boing Boing Blog] DVD hacker on trial in Norway on Monday Reply-To: boingboing-mailblog-owner@yahoogroups.com

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Jon Johansen, the Norweigan teenager who helped crack the crypto on DVDs so that he could watch out-of-region disks on his PC, is facing charges on Monday in Norway. I asked a lawyer-friend about this today: if Norgeigan law doesn't have the "anti-circumvention" stuff that the American DMCA has, what has Jon been charged with? It turns out that the MPAA insisted that Jon be prosecuted and that the best the Norweigan prosecutors could come up with is a statute forbidding intruding on a computer, so they charged him with hacking his own PC. <http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/20021206_eff_pr.html>Link <http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/FRpxGwFFe6M2>Discuss

-- Posted by Cory Doctorow to <http://boingboing.net/>Boing Boing Blog at 12/6/2002 11:26:49 PM

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