Thursday, 9. January 2003
Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 1:08:03 PM CET
Teen Cleared in DVD Piracy Case
Court says okay to DeCSS
In a legal setback for Hollywood, a Norwegian court Tuesday acquitted a teenager accused of violating computer- security laws with a program he wrote to unscramble the encryption on DVD movies.
Jon Lech Johansen developed the "DeCSS" program, which circumvents the Content Scrambling System on DVDs, when he was 15. He said he wanted to play movies he owned on a computer running the Linux operating system, which couldn't unscramble the DVDs.
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