mogga pointed us to an article on The Inquirer website. The Motion Picture Association of America has lost their case against Norwegian teenager, Jon Johansen, creator of the DVD decryption software DeCSS:
Reports said the court found there was no evidence that Johansen or anyone else on the Internet had used a decryption code he devised for illegal purposes. |
Johansen had claimed that he developed the DeCSS software in order to be able to view a DVD disk he owned on another machine. The prosecution alleged that he had conspired with a number of other individuals on the Internet to crack DVD codes.
The powerful MPAA, backed in the US by a number of politicians, had pushed for Norwegian prosecutors to bring the case against Johansen, who was 15 when he first cracked the codes on the DVD.
A pretty big loss for the MPAA or rather a great victory for people like "DVD Jon" (nickname of Jon Johansen) worldwide! Read the complete article here.
Source: The Inquirer
