"Jon Lech Johansen has been acquitted in Oslo of all charges relating to the DeCSS software DVD player he wrote 3 years ago for Linux...
A brief excerpt from http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=466519 The court ruled there was "no evidence" that either Johansen or others had used the decryption code (called DeCSS) for illegal purposes. Johansen therefore couldn't be convicted on such grounds, nor for acting as an accessory to other alleged illegal activity, wrote judge Irene Sogn in the court's ruling. Nor, wrote Sogn, was there any evidence that Johansen intended to contribute to illegal copying. The court determined that it is not illegal to use the DeCSS code to watch DVD films obtained by legal means. Also summarized at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28749.html http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2001520 " I'd say that there has been potential for some similar events to occur relating to medical record formats, so this is heartening. I think I'll watch a DVD this evening. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
