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FC: Norway charges Jon Johansen for copyright violations

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:31:39 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@politechbot.com Copies to: pcs@digi.no Subject: FC: Norway charges Jon Johansen for copyright violations with DeCSS Send reply to: declan@well.com

Other news coverage (via Slashdot) http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=256006 http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=9&item=194062 http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2002/01/10/305441.html

Background on the Johansen case: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=johansen

Photos of Johansen: http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/photosearch.cgi?name=johansen

Johansen's testimony in DeCSS trial in New York city: http://www.eff.org/Cases/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000720_ny_trial_transcript.h tml

-Declan

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Return-Path: <pcs@digi.no> Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20020110174428.027697f8@mail.no.digitoday.net> X-Sender: perchr@mail.no.digitoday.net Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:51:41 +0100 To: politech@politechbot.com From: "per chr. k. stokke" <pcs@digi.no> Subject: Jon Lech Johansen charged

FYI, everybody:

Norwegian authorities (www.okokrim.no) have chosen to charge Jon Lech=20 Johansen for violation of =A7145 in the norwegian penal code: ".... any=20 person who by breaking a protective device or in a similar manner,=20 unlawfully obtains access to data or programs which are stored or=20 transferred by electronic or other technical means".

If found guilty, he faces up to two years imprisonment and / or fines.

Regards,

per chr. k. stokke reporter/testpilot http://digi.no +47 73 92 94 49 +47 480 39 702 pcs@digi.no

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