Jon Lech Johansen, who spent four years fending off computer piracy charges, now wants some compensation. He's demanding nearly NOK 150,000 from the white collar crime unit that prosecuted him.

It's a modest claim by international standards, amounting to around USD 20,000. But that will apparently satisfy Johansen, who was a teenager when all the fuss around him started.

There was no immediate reaction from the prosecutors (Oekokrim), who lost their effort to prove that the young computer expert made it possible to copy DVDs and then spread his decoding information for DVDs via the Internet.

Last January, the so-called "DVD Jon" was acquitted on all counts by an Oslo city court. An appeals court upheld his acquittal just before Christmas and prosecutors decided not to pursue the case any further.

Halvor Manshaus, who served as Johansen's lead defense counsel during the long legal battle, has earlier said the charges were a heavy burden for his client.

Via Aftenposten News in English.

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