FC: More on Jon Johansen and DVD indictment (note up to 3 years in jail)

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:53:00 -0800
> To: declan () well com
> From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed () jaedworks com>
> Subject: Re: FC: The Third Shoe Drops: Jon Johansen indicted for DVD hack
>
> A couple of URLs in English:
> <http://www.norwaypost.no/content.asp?folder_id=1&cluster_id=11110>
> <http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/d121152.htm>
>
> Deeply garbled but nonetheless useful translation:
> <http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?type=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftenposten
> .no%2Fnyheter%2Fnett%2Fd121122.htm&text=&lang=noreng&Submit=TRANSLATE>
>
> --
> jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed () jaedworks com
> http://www.jaedworks.com


> From: "Andrew Grosso" <Agrosso () worldnet att net>
> To: <declan () well com>
> Cc: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Re: The Third Shoe Drops: Jon Johansen indicted for DVD hack
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:28:02 -0500
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
>
> Actually, it won't hurt their defense, since what is legal in one country
> can be illegal in another.  The US has a strong tradition of free speech,
> which is the underpining of this defense, so the effect before a federal
> judge *should* be negligible.



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> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:11:31 -0500 (EST)
> From: Charles Platt <cp () sedona net>
> X-Sender: cp () panix6 panix com
> To: Tasty Bits Irregulars <tbtf-irregulars () world std com>,
>         Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Cc: politech () vorlon mit edu
> Subject: Johansen Busted
>
>
> I just found this at The Register, the somewhat irreverent British news
> site (www.theregister.com) which I check often:
>
> ---------
>
> Norwegian coppers nick DeCSS DVD geezers
>
> Norwegian police raided the home of Jon Johansen last night and charged
> him and his father with breaking copyright laws.
>
> Johansen is understood to be the man who first posted on the Internet the
> source code for DeCSS -- the code that allows users to side-step copyright
> protection controls on DVDs enabling them to make illegal copies.
>
> Reports from two Norwegian news sites, Dagbladet and Nettavisen, claim
> that Johnasen's father was also included in the haul because his site was
> used to publish the program used to break the DVD encryption.
>
> Police also confiscated two computers and a mobile phone.
>
> Unfortunately that's all we have at the moment. The Register only speaks
> pidgin Norwegian -- so if anyone can shed any light on the stories from
> here or here, we'd be jolly grateful.
>
> Send your translations here.
>
> Plug of the day
> Drew Cullen writes: Copyleft, the legendary purveyor of geek chic (and
> maker of The Register's T-shirts), has added a DVD-CCA deCSS shirt to this
> season's collection.
>
> "Express your disapproval of the DVD CCA and support OpenDVD
> advocacy," Copyleft proclaims. "Just another way to spread the source code
> on your back. Find out information about it at OpenDVD.org."
>
> Four dollars from each T-shirt sale is donated to the EFF fighting fund.


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