Dec 2 2003

DVD ‘Hacker’ Pleads Not Guilty in Piracy Appeal

  • Written by cjules13
  • No Comments

A Norwegian who defeated Hollywood on piracy charges pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in a landmark appeal hearing that the movie industry is anxious to win to protect its lucrative DVD business.

Prosecutors, on behalf of major U.S. film studios, will try to prove that 20-year-old Jon Johansen broke Norwegian law when he developed and distributed a computer program that enables consumers to make personal copies of their DVDs.


The industry hopes to send a message to hackers that it will fight on any turf those who crack into their copy-protection systems in a global crackdown on piracy.

The plaintiffs, the Motion Picture Association of America — representing Hollywood studios like Walt Disney Co., Universal Studios and Warner Bros — estimate that piracy costs the U.S. motion picture industry $3 billion annually in lost sales.

The case in the Oslo Appeals Court is set to end on December 12 with a verdict expected in early 2004.


Johansen was dubbed “DVD-Jon” by the Internet community after he devised a computer program — DeCSS — in the late 1990s that enabled consumers to circumvent copy-protection technology embedded in ordinary DVDs.

Read more

Related Posts

  1. DeCSS Case: Johansen pleads Not Guilty
  2. DVD hacker Johansen indicted in Norway
  3. Norway Teen to Be Retried in DVD Piracy Case
  4. Hacker Cracks Apple’s Streaming Technology
  5. Man pleads guilty to film piracy
Zeropaid on Facebook
Trackbacks url:

Leave a Comment...

  • Advertisement

    Giganews Newsgroups

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

  • mpsharp.com Blog » Watching NFL games online: [...] show you a number of streams to choose from for each game.  All the streams require some sort of StreamTorrent pl...
  • ejonesss: no it is not going to completely stop piracy because while it will stop those whose reason for piracy is quality it is n...
  • file sharing anonymously - P2Pfreak.com: [...] and Trusty Files) just google any one of them and you will get some great info. also here IP filtering with uTorr...
  • soulxtc: Wasn't aware people were guaranteed jobs...
  • mountain_rage: BTW Youtube is supposed to go 1080P soon :D....
  • Gibbbo: Unfortunately the European stores still don't have anything close to the selection available in the USA store. I'm buyin...
  • STUDY: Artists Earn More in a P2P World: [...] personal favorite is the “The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study F...
  • D.AN: So a stupid plan has been become a doubly-retarded plan....
  • sdsd