Guests: Welcome! · Sign Up · Log On

b.cognosco

Where leaping to conclusions is my primary form of forward motion.

Home · Identity · About b.cognosco · Archive Index · Book Store

Messages: 1 of 1. Pages: 1
Comments/Replies (0) appear below in chronological order. Comment form is at bottom of page.

MPAA Pushing DMCA in Europe (#798)
Posted: 12/7/2002; 9:06 AM by Terry Frazier
Reply | Trackback URL | Weblog Permalink

MPAA and RIAA fanatics have enough money, power and lawyers to bully European governments -- and they wield it without reserve. Let's hope the Norwegian court has more integrity.

DVD hacker on trial in Norway on Monday. Jon Johansen, the Norweigan teenager who helped crack the crypto on DVDs so that he could watch out-of-region disks on his PC, is facing charges on Monday in Norway. I asked a lawyer-friend about this today: if Norgeigan law doesn't have the "anti-circumvention" stuff that the American DMCA has, what has Jon been charged with? It turns out that the MPAA insisted that Jon be prosecuted and that the best the Norweigan prosecutors could come up with is a statute forbidding intruding on a computer, so they charged him with hacking his own PC. [Boing Boing Blog]

Total Messages: 1. Pages: 1

Trackbacks

What other weblogs are saying about this topic. Trackback URL: http://www.terryfrazier.com/798/trackback

This Page was last updated: Thu, 03 May 2007 21:54:10 GMT

License: Unless otherwise expressly stated all original material, of whatever nature, created by Terry W. Frazier and included in this website, its related pages and archives, is licensed under a Creative Commons License, some rights reserved.

Disclaimer: This is a personal website. The views expressed here are those of the author and no one else. This is also an experiment in thinking out loud, so there are no warranties as to the reliability or accuracy of anything presented here. Source material -- references, citations, quotes, photos, and other elements -- are gathered from publicly available materials and some of it may be restricted. Any trademarks used are the property of their respective creators or owners. All are reproduced under the principle of Fair Use.

b.cognosco

Trackbacks

You must logon before posting a reply