DVD Jon Acquittal Under Appeal

wired news ^ | 1/20/03 | Associated Press

[freepatriot32]

Norwegian prosecutors will appeal the acquittal of a Norwegian teenager charged with digital burglary for creating and circulating a program online that cracks the security codes on DVDs.

Rune Floisbonn, a prosecutor with Norway's economic crimes police, told the NTB news agency Monday that an appeal would be filed. He did not immediately return calls from The Associated Press.

[freepatriot32]

these people just dont give up it is way past time to completely remove the dmca from the books not fix it not amend it not tinker with it a little remove it

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[The Old Hoosier]

I'm glad we live in a country where you can't be tried twice for the same offense.

[eno_]

The court ruled that Johansen, who works as a programmer in Oslo, could not be convicted of breaking in to DVDs that were his own property, since he had bought them legally.

This seems very simple: you buy something, you do as you please with it. It's called freedom. This is a minor and commercial manifestation of freedom, but it still is freedom.

This freedom is exactly what the RIAA, MPOA, and Microsoft want to take away from you. Leaving Microsoft aside for a moment, when was the last time Hollywood did anything that promoted our Founders' values in the Constitution? Is there any suprise to find them in a direct frontal assault on our freedom?

Once these organizations make it so your computer snitches on your for using music or movies in ways they do not approve of, it will be a short step to getting your computer to rat you out for any unapproved thought or activity.

[Nataku X]

Exactly. Today it's Bush monitoring ISP logs to enforce anti-piracy laws. Tomorrow it's Hillary monitoring ISP logs to put all regular visitors of FreeRepublic in a database of monitored members of hate organizations.

[ambrose]

Never give Bush any power you wouldn't want to give to Hillary.

Bump!

[eeman]

Try telling that to the cops who were prosecuted twice in the Rodney King Case: Stacy Koon, Ted Briseno, Laurence Powell and Timothy Wind -- the officers caught beating King on videotape and aquitted the first time. They were retried. Koon and Powell went to prison for 2.5 years. The other two were just kicked off the police force

[general_re]

Separate federal and state prosecutions aren't really a violation of double-jeopardy, though, and there are reasons that it should be so...