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  • Teen cleared in landmark DVD case - Norwegian not guilty of DVD piracy charges

    01/07/2003 11:57:54 AM PST · by weegee · 8 replies · 303+ views
    CNN ^ | 1-7-2003 | CNN Norge's Morten Overbye contributed to this report
    <p>OSLO, Norway -- A Norwegian teenager has been cleared of DVD piracy charges in a landmark trial brought by major Hollywood studios.</p> <p>The Oslo court said Jon Johansen, known in Norway as "DVD Jon," had not broken the law when he helped unlock a code and distribute a computer program enabling DVD films to be copied.</p>
  • Norway Prosecutors Seek Teen's Computers

    12/16/2002 1:44:19 PM PST · by knighthawk · 6 replies · 272+ views
    Europe Daily ^ | December 16 2002 | AP
    OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian teenager who wrote software for breaking the copy protection on DVDs harmed movie studios by circulating it over the Internet and should have his computers taken away, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutors also called for Jon Leech Johansen, 19, to pay $1,400 in court costs. But they stopped short of seeking jail time, recommending that the teen get a 90-day suspended sentence. A verdict is expected within a few weeks. Johansen has said his software, DeCSS, was necessary to watch movies he already owned on his Linux-based computer, for which DVD software had not yet...