Jon Johansen DVD case

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bstandal on 2004/01/07:

  „Only 20 per cent of the movies make a profit. The markets for video and DVD has over time become those generating the largest incomes. For Warner Brothers the income from these markets amount to 60 per cent. Of this share, DVD amounts to 80 per cent.“

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Net information about the Jon Johansen (“DVD Jon”) case

  „The autumn of 1999 Jon Lech Johansen (“DVD Jon”) with others decrypted the copy control system on DVD records to make it possible to view the DVDs at the Linux operating system. The program that made this possible was called “DeCSS” and released on the Internet. This resulted in him being sued by DVD Copy Control Association in USA, arrested by Norwegian police and charged by The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (ØKOKRIM).“

http://efn.no/jonjohansen-en.html - Cached

Net meeting with Jon Bing

  „Jon Bing, law professor at the University of Oslo and expert on Norwegian copyright issues, answers readers questions about the DVD-jon case and other copyright issues (Norwegian).“

Found at a page of Rachael, posted on 2004/01/06

http://huminf.uib.no/~st04555/jot/archive/ cat_ethics_the_internet.html#000213 - Cached

DeCSS history / Jon Johansen, MoRE

  „Jon's comment on this matter is:"I never told the media that I had cracked the dvd encryption.What I told them, was that we (MoRE) had made an app calledDeCSS which would decrypt dvd movies and let them be playedoff your hd, or off dvdrs if you have a dvd burner. I alwaysused _we_ and _MoRE_ when talking to them. I never said anythingabout me or my position in the group.“

Found at a page of Seth Finkelstein, posted on 2003/12/03

http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/ 000492.html - Cached

Zik's Friendz: Jon Johansen assolto oggi anche in appello

  „uses of DVD movies," said IP Justice Executive Director Robin D. Gross. "Both the Norwegian city and appeals courts have wisely recognized that when you buy a DVD, you own it; and Hollywood does not have the right to tell you how you may use your property," explained the intellectual property attorney based in San Francisco.“

http://www.ziccardi.org/blog/archives/ 000020.html - Cached

Norwegian Court Acquits DeCSS Author Jon Johansen - Again

  „Jon Johansen of DeCSS fame has done it again. This time he has made it possible to remove the DRM from iTunes. The Register has the story.“

http://www.stargeek.com/item/47708.html - Cached

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