[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.

[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