"DVD Jon" Secures Victory after Norwegian Police Drop Appeal

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 5, 2004 - 4:24am.

Oslo -- Jon Johansen, also known as "DVD Jon," on Monday won a major victory against Norwegian police authorities and the U.S. film industry after local police confirmed they would not appeal a recent ruling on DVD piracy for a second time. Johansen had allegedly broken the law by distributing a computer program on the Internet allowing the unauthorized copying of DVDs. An appeals court in Oslo, however, cleared the notorious 20-year-old last month of piracy charges that had been filed by Norwegian police, who in turn had brought the charges against Johansen on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America.
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