[free-sklyarov] Slashdot - Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:13:14 -0500
From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf at MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L at LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
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Subject: Slashdot - Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities

[Yet another programmer facing criminal charges! And Jon Johansen
didn't even do the DeCSS decryption himself, he's being charged with
"participating"]

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=256006

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1433237

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25975&cid=2816391

 From norwegian newspaper Dagbladet (Score:5, Informative)
by bob at dB.org on Thursday January 10, @10:17AM (#2816391)
(User #89920 Info | http://www.havoq.com/)
My translation of the Dagbladet (norwegian newspaper) article.
Spelling and gramatical errors are mine, factual errors are those of
Dagbladet and the norwegian Police.

The 18 year only Jon Lech Johansen has been indicted for breaking the
"computer trespasing" paragraph of the norwegian criminal code.

Thursday January 10, 2002 14:02, updated 14:53.

This is confirmed to NTB by attorney Inger Marie Sunde. Johansen has
since January 2000 been charged by the norwegian financial crimes unit
(Xkokrim) after being reported by the american movie- and
entertainment organization Movie Picture Association (MPA).

The background is that Johansen in 1999 participated in creating a
program, DeCSS, that make it possible to play back DVD movie under the
Linux operating system, and made it available on the internet. The
program can also be used to decrypt the content of DVD-disks and makes
it possible to copy the movie.

Johansen is indicted for participating in breaking the protection
system Content Scrambling System (CSS), that protects the content of
DVD-disks from copying.

Johansen is indicted based on the criminal code paragraph 145, parts
two and tree Sunde informs the NTB.

>From the inditement:

"- For by breaking a protection scheme, of by similar activities
unjustly having gained access to data stored of transmitted by
electronic or other technical means and by having caused damage by
gaining or using such unjustly obtained knowledge."

The charged offense carries a maximum sentence of 6 months in prison.


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