[MLUG - DISCUSSION] DeCSS Creator's Trial Over; Ruling Expected Soon

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This is another interesting case.  If someone had told me a decade ago
that a kid would be prosecuted for writing a computer program, I wouldn't
have believed it.  How can it be illegal to write program?  Anyway,
bizarre things sometimes happen.  I hope he gets off altogether, but I
doubt it.

Mike


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SANS NewsBites             December 18, 2002            Vol. 4, Num. 51
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THE REST OF THE WEEK'S NEWS
 --16 December 2002 DeCSS Creator's Trial Over; Ruling Expected Soon
The trial of Jon Johansen, the Norwegian teenager who wrote the
DeCSS DVD encryption-breaking program, has ended. Johansen's attorney
maintains the young man wrote the program so he could watch DVDs he
already owned on his Linux-based computer. Prosecutors asked for a
90-day suspended sentence and $1,400 in court costs. The judge is
likely to rule in the case early next year.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978009.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62526-2002Dec16.html

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