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DVD-Jon wins new legal victory

Norway's most famous computer whiz got an early Christmas present on Monday

         

Tor

12:25 pm on Dec 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Story [aftenposten.no] ;)

requiem

10:50 pm on Dec 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Too bad :-(

If this had been a US courtcase I am sure he would already be behind bars.

Kwix

7:54 pm on Dec 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Contentious issue I know, but my $.02 are as follows.

Piracy is bad, m'kay.

However, information is never bad. Knowing how to shoot a gun, and killing somebody are two completely different things.

Cracking a weak code and showing others how to do so is not bad or evil, nor should it be illegal. Now, using that crack to copy stuff, well, that is different and fully infringes on copywrite laws.

It is knowlege vs. application, though the Office of Homeland Security may argue that point these days.

lgn1

11:45 pm on Dec 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Maybe the record industry could hire a few retired NSA crytographers, to design a half decent algorthim. It appears they need all the help they can get.