On Monday the trial against the Norwegian teenager Jon Johansen begins. He has been prosecuted for his contribution to the making of DeCSS, the first fully working software that could break the CSS encryption on DVD movies.
After a request from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (é˜KOKRIM) charged Jon Johansen for unscrambling DVDs using DeCSS in 1999 when he was 15 years old. |
Johansen is charged with violating the Norwegian Criminal Code section 145(2), which outlaws breaking into another person's locked property to gain access to data that one is not entitled to access.
Actually it was not Jon Johansen who cracked the CSS encryption but an anonymous German programmer, see here.
You'll find the whole story here and the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has an article here.
Source: EFF.org
