Jon Johansen Trial Continues

An anonymous reader writes "The Norwegian prosecution has been allowed to change the indictment in their case against "DVD-Jon" Johansen. There is an English language article on Friday's trial proceedings now available." VG.nett is also covering the trial.

Hang him.

[grub]

Jon Johansen is an evil h4x0r that in one fell swoop allowed socialist Linux and *BSD hippies to watch DVDs on their computers.
If there is any justice, he will be hung from a tall tree in the morning.

Yours truly,

Jack Valenti

Re:Hang him.

[cnkeller]

If there is any justice, he will be hung from a tall tree in the morning.

Thanks to the new 802.11b wireless tree networks, we'll all have ample notice to resue him...

Re:I'm happy!

[rbgaynor]

Sadly only about 45% can write english...

Re:Hang him.

[teamhasnoi]

If you hang him in Humboldt County, the tree sitters can continue their protest another two months! Make sure you salt him well.

Sincerely,

Grizzly Adams

Please just wait until something new is written

[skydude_20]

Thursday December 12, @03:57PM
http://www.vg.no/spesial/bakgrunn/?id=698
Friday December 13, @08:53AM
http://www.vg.no/spesial/bakgrunn/?id=698

So yeah, written up differently, but I think still a repeat if you use the same links for different slashdot stories, that both made the front page!

Thank goodness I give my money to the local zoo instead of a slashdot subscription, cuz the zoo monkeys do a better job with my money.

Re:Wait til Ashcroft get his hands on this!

[anonymous loser]

Prosecution: You're being charged with murder.
Jon: Murder? With my computer?
Prosecution: Uh, did we say murder? We meant assault.
Jon: All I did was write a program!
Prosecution: Internet Fraud! Exactly what we meant to say.
Jon: How is viewing a DVD on linux fraud?
Prosecution: What's linux?
Jon: A free operating system.
Prosecution: No such thing! We're charging you with Theft and "Intent to View DVDs on Stolen System"!

In Soviet Russia

[Anonymous Coward]

...you joke about Americans having less freedom than you do.

What did he do again?

[surprise_audit]

Can someone give me a quick rundown of what happened here?

The way I remember it, Jon was arrested in Norway because the MPAA told the Norwegians he was being a bad boy. Was that a DMCA thing or before that? If it's a DMCA thing, why the fuck is he being tried in Norway, with Norwegian attornies and Judge, for breaking a US law outside the borders of the US?

Jon didn't even give anyone the finger by showing up in the US to deliver a talk about DeCSS, unlike Skylarov and his piece of code.

If the Norwegians caved in because the MPAA threatened them, here's how the conversation should have gone:

MPAA: we want you to prosecute Jon for breaking CSS.
Norway: Fuck off!
MPAA: we'll embargo DVD shipments to Norway!
Norway: Fuck off! We've got diplomats and tourist all over the world that can ship us DVDs.
MPAA:But they won't work in your region coded players!
Norway: Fuck off! We've got Jon-boy and DeCSS...

Re:Wait til Ashcroft get his hands on this!

[UberLord]

Why would a Microsoft lawyer be doing a murder case?

Re:Wait til Ashcroft get his hands on this!

[UberLord]

I was alluding to the fact that there's no such thing as a Free Operating system (or software for that matter) from a MS wannabe perspective. Obviously my level of humour is vastly superior to your intellect and I humbly appologise ;)

Re:I'm sick of this story.

[KjetilK]

Uhm, they are playing Calvin Ball in court, actually, I would say that is news...

Re:Hang him.

[sqlrob]

That's interesting. Every DVD I've played on Linux I've paid for.

Re:Hang him.

[alexburke]

Thanks to the new 802.11b wireless tree networks, we'll all have ample notice to resue him...

Didn't you mean spanning tree? *rimshot*

Thanks! I'll be here all day! Try the fish. Tip your waitress!

Re:Slashdotted?

[Joey7F]

Not all of Dagbladet's unique visitors are Norwegian ;) Like me...

Jeg les Dagbladet hver dag og jeg er ikke fra Norge og jeg er ikke Norsk.

--Joey