[JDEV] Fwd: MPAA Continues Intimidation Campaign; Police Raid Home of Norwegian Linux Coder

Thu Jan 27 01:31:24 CST 2000

>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:01:53 -0800
>To: metacard at lists.best.com
>From: Digifilm <digifilm at digifilm.com>
>Subject: MPAA Continues Intimidation Campaign; Police Raid Home of 
>Norwegian Linux Coder
>
>Folks,
>
>The movie industry is using their muscle to intimidate coders. I hope that 
>this post is relevant to this list.
>
>Debdoot
>
>
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>>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:31:08 -0800
>>To: digifilm at digifilm.com
>>From: debdoot das <digifilm at digifilm.com>
>>Subject: Fwd: MPAA Continues Intimidation Campaign; Police Raid Home of
>>  Norwegian Linux Coder
>>
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>>>Subject: MPAA Continues Intimidation Campaign; Police Raid Home of 
>>>Norwegian Linux Coder
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>>>   EFFector       Vol. 13, No. 1       Jan. 25, 2000       editor at eff.org
>>>
>>>   A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation     ISSN 1062-9424
>>>
>>>  IN THE 149th ISSUE OF EFFECTOR (now with over 21,000 subscribers!):
>>>
>>>     * MPAA Continues Intimidation Campaign Against Open Source Software
>>>       Community
>>>          + Police Raid Home of Norwegian Linux Coder
>>>          + WHAT YOU CAN DO
>>>          + Links to More Information
>>>     * Administrivia
>>>
>>>   For more information on EFF activities & alerts: http://www.eff.org
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>>>
>>>MPAA Continues Intimidation Campaign Against Open Source Software Community
>>>
>>>  Police Raid Home of Norwegian Linux Coder
>>>
>>>   The home of sixteen-year-old Jon Johansen, who was among the first to
>>>   post the DeCSS program that allows users to view DVDs on computers
>>>   using non-Windows or Macintosh operating systems, was raided yesterday
>>>   in Larvik, Norway and his computer and cellular telephone seized by
>>>   police.
>>>
>>>   The police were acting at the behest of the motion picture industry as
>>>   part of the industry's attempt to suppress discussion and distribution
>>>   of DVD-viewing software developed outside of the industry's licensing
>>>   regime to prevent the free availability of such software.
>>>
>>>   Both Johansen and his father, who operated the website on which the
>>>   teen posted the code, were questioned at length by the police and have
>>>   been threatened with indictment for posting the code, which the motion
>>>   picture industry dubiously claims was created illegally and promotes
>>>   piracy. Legal analysis of Norwegian copyright and computer crime laws
>>>   suggests the charges would not stick; the action appears intended to
>>>   harass and frighten.
>>>
>>>   This action is in addition to three lawsuits filed by the Motion
>>>   Picture Association of America and the DVD Content Control Association
>>>   and their overlapping membership, in California, New York and
>>>   Connecticut against numerous individuals and organizations including
>>>   coders, journalists and an ISP. EFF's legal staff, aided by some of
>>>   the nation's top attorneys in copyright law, are vigorously defending
>>>   those named in the suits, to support the rights of individuals to
>>>   legally develop, post, and discuss software.
>>>
>>>   "The motion picture industry is using its substantial resources to
>>>   intimidate the technical community into surrendering their rights of
>>>   free expression and fair use of information", said Tara Lemmey,
>>>   President of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "These actions are a
>>>   wake-up call for the open-source software community. The process of
>>>   reverse-engineering and public posting and commenting of code that the
>>>   MPAA is attempting to suppress is fundamental to the development of
>>>   open source software as well as being constitutionally-protected
>>>   speech."
>>>
>>>   EFF plans to assist the Johansen family and has already contacted
>>>   several experts in European copyright law to involve them in the case.
>>>
>>>   For more information and background material on the MPAA/DVDCCA
>>>   crusade to censor free speech and innovation under the smokescreen of
>>>   preventing piracy, visit EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free
>>>   Expression ( http://www.eff.org/cafe ) or follow some of the links
>>>   below.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>    Links to More Information
>>>
>>>   EFF's Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE)
>>>   http://www.eff.org/cafe
>>>
>>>   Coverage in Norwegian Press (in English):
>>>   http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/d121152.htm
>>>
>>>   EFF press release regarding related NY, CT cases:
>>> 
>>>http://www.eff.org/ip/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000120_eff_press_release.html
>>>
>>>   CNN coverage of injunction granted in NY case:
>>>   http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/ptech/01/21/dvd.hacking.reut/index.html
>>>
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