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DeCSS Creator to be Tried Again

Posted: 2003-03-04 11:18pm
by Dalton
More bullshit from the "anti-piracy" brigade.

http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/2003/20030304.html#4

Posted: 2003-03-04 11:34pm
by weemadando
Hadn't he been cleared of charges?

Oh right, they just want blood. Poor little movie execs...

Posted: 2003-03-04 11:40pm
by Dalton
He was, but Norway decided he needed to be tried again apparently.

Posted: 2003-03-04 11:46pm
by EmperorMing
Dalton wrote:He was, but Norway decided he needed to be tried again apparently.
Tried again? WTF? For what? :evil: :evil:

Posted: 2003-03-04 11:52pm
by Dalton
EmperorMing wrote:Tried again? WTF? For what? :evil: :evil:
Writing the DeCSS code. :roll:

Posted: 2003-03-05 12:18am
by Exonerate
Dalton wrote:
EmperorMing wrote:Tried again? WTF? For what? :evil: :evil:
Writing the DeCSS code. :roll:
He didn't actually write it... He took the code written by somebody else, renamed a few functions, then called it his own.

It's kinda funny though...

Posted: 2003-03-05 12:20am
by Wicked Pilot
I'm guessing that Norway has no law against Double Jeopardy.

Posted: 2003-03-05 12:22am
by Exonerate
Wicked Pilot wrote:I'm guessing that Norway has no law against Double Jeopardy.
Or triple jeopardy. Hmf.

Posted: 2003-03-05 12:26am
by Enlightenment
EmperorMing wrote:Tried again? WTF? For what? :evil: :evil:
Violating the wishes of the United States Global Co-prosperity sphere.

Posted: 2003-03-05 12:27am
by Durandal
Won't someone please think of all the starving movie industry executives?

Posted: 2003-03-05 12:28am
by EmperorMing
Thanks guys.

Still utter BS.