DVD-Jon wins new legal victory (Aftenposten) [LWN.net]

Aftenposten reports that Jon Johansen has been acquitted again. "A verdict in the case, which has caught international attention, wasn't expected until early January. But the appeals court (Borgarting lagmannsrett) apparently didn't see any need to wait with its decision." (Found on Slashdot).

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DVD-Jon wins new legal victory (Aftenposten)

Posted Dec 22, 2003 16:33 UTC (Mon) by pivot (guest, #588) [Link]

Hmm, wonder why they are ignoring VHS-Lars then?

DVD-Jon wins new legal victory (Aftenposten)

Posted Dec 22, 2003 21:09 UTC (Mon) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link]

Doesn't the site look like a spoof to you?

Andrew Bunner case in California

Posted Dec 22, 2003 19:48 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

This result bears on the Andrew Bunner trade-secret case in California. That court found that since the trade secret was (supposedly) illegally obtained, Andrew Bunner and several hundred "John Does" had acted improperly in posting DeCSS, and ordered them not to post it.

At the hearing the question came up whether in fact the reverse engineering involved was legal under Norwegian law. The judge called for opinions from Norwegian lawyers. The plaintiff trotted out a tame lawyer who asserted (without support of any kind) that it was not legal. The defendant's lawyer said nothing in Norwegian law or case law supported any opinion one way or the other. The judge took that to mean that in fact it wasn't legal.

Now that it's established that in fact it was legal, Bunner et al. should be able to have the decision vacated. (Shame on that judge.)