Folks, The movie industry is using their muscle to intimidate coders. I hope that this post is relevant to this list. Debdoot >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:31:08 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: debdoot das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fwd: MPAA Continues Intimidation Campaign; Police Raid Home of > Norwegian Linux Coder > >>Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm >>Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Delivered-To: moderator for [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:29:19 -0500 (EST) >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>From: Cyber Rights <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: MPAA Continues Intimidation Campaign; Police Raid Home of >>Norwegian Linux Coder >> >> EFFector Vol. 13, No. 1 Jan. 25, 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> 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 >> _________________________________________________________________ >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >> WHAT YOU CAN DO >> >> Support EFF by making a special donation. 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