THE MOTION PICTURE Association of America (MPAA) has persuaded authorities in the kingdom of Norway to try a teenager three years after he watched DVDs on a Linux computer using the Linux-based de-scrambling program DeCSS.
The Electronic Freedom Foundation said in a statement that Jon Johansen will face a court tomorrow morning, with the case expected to last the course of this week.
The MPAA, said the EFF, persuaded the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (�KOKRIM) to charge Jon Johansen after he used DeCSS when he was only 15 to view a DVD that he owns. He’s charged with breaking a Norwegian law which prohibits people breaking into others’ locked property to get data that they’re not supposed to obtain. This is the Norwegian Criminal Code section 145(2).
Said Cindy Cohn, the EFF Legal Director: “Jon owned the DVDs and he’s never been accused of copyright infringement or assisting in copyright infringement. He’s facing criminal charges for taking the necessary steps to view his own DVDs on his own computers.”
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