OT: RE: DMCA etc.

In related news: <quote> Norwegian teenager acquitted in DVD film cracking case Tue Jan 7, 7:26 PM ET By DOUG MELLGREN, Associated Press Writer OSLO, Norway - Hollywood didn't get its happy ending when a Norwegian court acquitted a teenager of digital burglary charges for creating and circulating online a program that cracks the security codes on DVDs. Tuesday's ruling, a blow to the entertainment industry's drive to curtail illegal copying of its movies, was a key test in how far copyright holders can go in preventing duplication of their intellectual property. Jon Lech Johansen, who was 15 when he developed and posted the program on the Internet in late 1999, said he developed the software only to watch DVD movies he owned on a Linux-based computer that lacked DVD-viewing software. </quote> -----Original Message----- From: John Allain [mailto:allain@panix.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:46 PM To: CCTalk Subject: DMCA etc. For those of you nutz about the current efforts to make digital copyrights overly restrictive, here's a FUN place to visit, as regards to this problem. "END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR VIEWING ILLEGAL ART EXHIBIT" <g> http://www.illegal-art.org/contract.html If you allow popups, go here instead and it will pop the above. http://www.illegal-art.org John A.