COURT OF APPEALS:

John Lech Johansen, alias DVD-Jon, was aquitted on all counts in Borgating Court of Appeals Monday afternoon.

Økokrim, the central unit for investigating and prosecuting economic and environmental crimes, started to investigate Johansen after he published a program on the Internet which made it possible to break the built-in scrabbling code CSS on DVDs.

Johansen was first arrested in January 2000 when he was 16 years old, and it is today four years since the police first confiscated Johansen’s computer.

The trial, which got a lot of publicity both in Norwegian and International media, ended with the acquittal of Johansen in Oslo County Court in January 2003.

The case was appealed to Borgating, and the case started December 2 of this year.

Via Nettavisen, News in English.

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