Fwd: Jon Johansen charged with "hacking his own PC"

[Steve Schear]

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

>From: "Cory Doctorow" <doctorow at craphound.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.
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