DeCSS Creator to be Tried Again

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-04 11:18pm

More bullshit from the "anti-piracy" brigade.

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

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-04 11:34pm

Hadn't he been cleared of charges?

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

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-04 11:40pm

He was, but Norway decided he needed to be tried again apparently.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-03-04 11:46pm

Dalton wrote:He was, but Norway decided he needed to be tried again apparently.

Tried again? WTF? For what?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-04 11:52pm

EmperorMing wrote:Tried again? WTF? For what?

Writing the DeCSS code.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-03-05 12:18am

Dalton wrote:
EmperorMing wrote:Tried again? WTF? For what?
Writing the DeCSS code.

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...

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-03-05 12:20am

I'm guessing that Norway has no law against Double Jeopardy.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-03-05 12:22am

Wicked Pilot wrote:I'm guessing that Norway has no law against Double Jeopardy.

Or triple jeopardy. Hmf.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-03-05 12:26am

EmperorMing wrote:Tried again? WTF? For what?

Violating the wishes of the United States Global Co-prosperity sphere.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-03-05 12:27am

Won't someone please think of all the starving movie industry executives?

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-03-05 12:28am

Thanks guys.

Still utter BS.