“Norwegian police, leaping to action at the bidding of American
commercial powers, raided the home of 16-year-old DeCSS developer
Jon Johansen on Tuesday, arresting the lad and confiscating his
computers for evidence.”
“Following several hours of questioning, young Johansen was
charged with gaining unauthorised access to data and copyright
infringement, serious allegations for which he could serve time in
gaol if convicted….“
“We were more than once referred to a “Journalist’s Fact Sheet”
at OpenDVD.org, which notes that “the [DVD] encryption only hinders
playback. It is possible to (illegally) copy a DVD disk without
decrypting anything! You can do this because the decryption is done
at play time and doesn’t have anything to do with copying.”
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