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DVD Jon also cleared on appeal

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edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
It has been reported that on Monday an Oslo Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling clearing Jon Lech Johansen of charges related to his development and distribution of DeCDD a software tool that can be used to crack copy protection on DVDs.

[blockquote]Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, was acquitted in January by the Oslo City Court. Økokrim, the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime, decided in March to appeal the verdict.

Økokrim had called for 20-year-old Johansen to be given a 90-day suspended jail term.
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  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Eh? DeCDD? DeCSS...?
  • AuthorityActionAuthorityAction Missouri Member
    edited December 2003
    He was only 15 years old when he wrote that program.

    ;D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    DeCSS is the ~15 lines of perl code that allowed encryption to be stripped from every DVD on the planet.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2003
    DeCSS is the ~15 lines of perl code that allowed encryption to be stripped from every DVD on the planet.

    ROFLMFAO
    ;D;D;D

    15 lines of code. ;D

    The people that wrote the encryption code must have felt real intelligent... ;D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    No more intelligent than the audio CD encryption that got thwarted by holding the shift key, or the folks who got duped by putting a 2" line from a black sharpie anywhere along a highly-visible protection ring on the outer quarter of the CD.
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