DeCSS: Jon Johansen Acquitted In Retrial

EssJay writes "DVD-Jon is acquitted in the retrial. The verdict was expected in January, but was announced today in the papers." We had posted about the retrial beginning - it's a good holiday present to get this early.

Re:DVD Jon

[Soporific]

More blank DVD's I would think.

~S

Re:Aftenposten article

[Anonymous Coward]

Good thing you repeated the URL to the article in the post. If not I am sure I would have missed it.

not fair -- best of out 5!!

[jdesbonnet]

Hey, do you think they'll give up after only two retrials?

Odd...

[IngramJames]

Let me get this straight:
a court of law has ruled against the big media companies and for the little hacker guy who wrote a cool C++ program to let us all watch DVDs that we legally own?

Was Rod Sterling seen anywhere near the court, at all?

Next lawsuit already in planning..

[Anonymous Coward]

Immediately after the trial, Oekokrim prosecutor Inger Marie Sunde commented:

Norway is a den of copyright criminals. Make no mistake; we in Oekokrim and our new best friends from the MPAA won't give up our holy fight to take avay the evil fair use rights from the Norwegian movie fans just because our holy cause suffered a minor setback today.

Indeed, another criminal right up Johansen's alley is already under investigation and will be brought to justice soon. This criminal mastermind is known as VHS-Lars [www.nrk.no].

There is reason to believe he has has connections to Osama bin Laden, too.

Re:Aftenposten article

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, this is slashdot. You expect people to RTFA or even RTFP ?

You must be new here ....

Reverse engineering and Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this open the way to reverse-engineering *any* software? Could we, for instance, go to Norway and reverse-engineer Windows?

While it is not particularly well-written software, I'm sure we could learn many things from the source code that we could use in Open Source Software/Free Software/GNU/Linux. I'm thinking specifically the GUI and Windows' tip-top TCP/IP stack.

Re:So what?

[AllUsernamesAreGone]

And? Oh yes, I keep forgetting, the only things beyond the boundaries of the Great US are ghosts and vampires..

Oh for the love of...

[Locky]

And I just registered freedvdjon.com !
Who would have thought the courts would rule correctly? :(

Why visit the U.S.?

[AtariAmarok]

" why would -any- european want to visit the US these days?

Why else but to stock up on cheap Region 1 DVDs to take home and copy!

Re:excellent news

[blankmange]

Sounds like you have an issue -- were you targeted by DirecTv? Just out of curiosity, were you guilty of pirating their crap?

Re:So what? Not everyone lives in the USA!

[Anonymous Coward]

Only one country I can think of that would have the gall to call its national baseball championship The World Series......

If all else fails...

[the_ph0x`]

The Chewbacca Defense:

Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense!

Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!

But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this case?

Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!

Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.

And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense.

If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.

Re:At last - now lets hope we can all move on

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right! We better just invade Norway and stop this unamerican cyberterrorist crap right now.

Re:Good, but...

[Zoshnell]

Obviously you haven't been watching Norwegian Prime Time sitcoms lately! Norse Court is a hilarious take on Night Court, a popular mid 80's(I think, i was only 6 or 7 when I remember the show) about a wacky judge, a defense attorney, a prosecutor, and a large balding strong man bailiff and their wacky adventures with Nordic law! Norse, on at 8 PM every weekday night on sky 2 or whatever you guys have out there!

Re:Norway is not a socialist nor a communist count

[lars_stefan_axelsson]

Norway has been a democratic, capitalist country ever since it broke free from despotic royal rule in the early 1800s.

Well, then, thanks for not referring to the events in 1905 as "breaking free from despotic royal rule".

Don't mind you slagging the Danes though. :-)

They'll just retry him

[tundog]

Becuase in Norway, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again" ;)

Wow

[pclminion]

Wow, I really wish I could live in a country where it's impossible to sleep at night, due to fear of a prosecuter dragging me back into court over an offense I'd already been acquitted of.

What a bastion of individual freedom you've got over there.

Re:not fair -- best of out 5!!

[lars_stefan_axelsson]

Pining for the fjords are we? :-)

Re:At last - now lets hope we can all move on

[amanpatelhotmail.com]

But it may only last untill EUCD is implemented

And how long before EUCD gets cracked?

not

[Tharald]

Not true! We all know that the paper clip was invented by an american software-comany and first included in Office 97.