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Decss Legal Says Norwegian Court

Reuters reports that an Oslo appeal courtroom has constitute that Jon Johansen, the youthful Norwegian author of the DeCSS figurer programme that unlocks the anti-copying protection on DVDs, has non broken whatever laws. Johansen, who claimed that his code was to enable Linux-users to play DVDs, equally good disseminated it over the internet. Additionally, the courtroom constitute that in that place was no copyright infringement where consumers made dorsum upwards copies of DVDs (and past times analogy CDs) that they owned inwards instance the originals were scratched for example. The claimant directly has ii weeks to appeal to the Norwegian Supreme Court.

welcomes the conclusion inwards equally far equally it opens the trend for DeCSS to last used to decode technological protection measures where the argue for wanted to re-create the DVD is legitimate e.g. the creation of back-up copies of DVDs. However, he does non condone the purpose of DeCSS past times those who but desire to re-create DVDs to avoid paying for the copyright operate themselves.

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