[Gllug] yay dvd freedom

Stig Brautaset gllug at brautaset.org
Wed Jan 8 01:37:01 UTC 2003


On Jan 07 2003, Ian wrote:
> good news for linux and freedom
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28749.html
> 
> the DeCSS dvd decoder guy has been aquitted :-D

Yeah. Under Norwegian law, it is actually legal to reverse-engineer
technology to be able to use it the way it was intended. Since they only
found legally bought DVDs at his house, there really wasn't much of a
case to start with.

Stig
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