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•                Halvor Manshaus, Johansen's Attorney, Advokatfirmaet Schjødt AS .
• (Oslo) A Norwegian appeals court today cleared Jon Johansen (20) of all charges for viewing his lawfully purchased DVDs on a DVD player that is not approved of by the Hollywood movie studios. ...
• Johansen was represented on appeal by Halvor Manshaus from the Oslo law firm Advokatfirmaet Schjødt, who also defended Johansen at the lower court. ...
• In addition, the Court states that although DeCSS can be used to make illegal copies, this was not the intent of Johansen, nor has he made copies in violation of intellectual property regulations," Manshaus added. ...
• Johansen was first charged by the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (OKOKRIM) who raided his family's home at the request of the Motion Picture Association in 2000.   After the Oslo City Court acquitted Johansen in January 2003, Hollywood pressured Norwegian prosecutors to appeal the decision and the retrial was scheduled to begin on December 2nd and wrapped up on the 11th. ...
• At 15, Johansen helped to create DeCSS, a computer program that unlocks DVDs in 1999 and first published it on the Internet. ...
• More Information on Johansen DeCSS Prosecution: .
• org/johansen/DVD-Jon-Borgarting-1-eng. ...
• org/johansen/DVD-Jon-Borgarting-1-eng. ...
• org/johansen/122203_Johansen_Ruling. ...
• December 8, 2003 IP Justice Media Release on Johansen Retrial .
• December 2, 2003 IP Justice Media Release on Johansen Retrial: .
• March 3, 2003 IP Justice Media Release on Johansen Retrial: .
• January 20, 2003 IP Justice Media Release on Appeal of Johansen Acquittal: .
• January 7, 2003 IP Justice Media Release on Johansen's Acquittal: .

• EFN DEMANDS ACQUITTAL AND FULL REDRESS FOR JON JOHANSEN .
• The civil rights movement Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN) notes that økokrim (The National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway), after two years of investigation, has brought charges against Jon Lech Johansen in the 'DVD case'. ...
• Jon Johansen, in collaboration with others, made a program (DeCSS) which allows anyone to play a DVD-disc on computers which have open operating systems such as Linux installed. ...
• EFN affirms that the indictment against Jon Lech Johansen is alarming and hostile to all consumer interests. A ruling against Johansen would imply a criminalization of normal and fundamental consumer rights. A victory for Jon Johansen, however, would be a victory for all consumers, and a step in the right direction towards restoring consumer rights and interests. Jon Johansen is innocent and must be found not guilty and be given full redress.

• DECSS AUTHOR JON JOHANSEN FOUND INNOCENT IN NORWEGIAN COURT.
• Jon Johansen, author of the controversial DeCSS program, was cleared of charges in a Norwegian court on Tuesday. Judge Irene Sogn found that Johansen had not violated any of Norway's strict anti-piracy laws in creating the software. ...
• Halvor Manshaus, Johansen's lawyer in the case, told Reuters that the case sets a strong precedent in Norway. ...
• The latter was Johansen's original motivation for writing DeCSS. ...

• Date Set For Jon Johansen DVD Trial .
• The Norweigan "Byrett" (district court) will try the Jon Johansen DVD case on December 9, 2002. ...
• Jon Johansen is being prosecuted by the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (OKOKRIM) under Norwegian Criminal Code 145(2). Johansen created DeCSS software that can enable DVD playback on Linux. ...
• EFF information on the Jon Johansen case. ...
• Date Set For Jon Johansen DVD Trial | Login/Create an Account | Top | 5 comments | Search Discussion .
• As Jon Johansen put it himself in an old interview: .
• com Jon Johansen: I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened. ...
• Jon Johansen: Yes, that is correct. ...
• Jon Johansen: They are both a lot older than me, and they are employed. ...
• EFF is hosting a Jon Johansen Legal Defense Fund eff. ...

• Parents of slain teen speak at sentencing of defendant Andrew Johansen .
• 18 at the sentencing hearing for the man who killed him, Andrew Karl Johansen, 22.
• But Johansen appeared unmoved as Sonoma County Judge Robert Boyd sentenced him to 18 years and eight months in prison for shooting his friend in the head at a July, 2001 party.
• The defendant, Johansen, had pleaded guilty last month to voluntary manslaughter in the killing of Pope, 18, at a birthday held in the Johansen family's Petaluma house.
• The sentence includes a requirement that Johansen serve 85 percent of his time, or just over 15 years, before he is considered for parole. ...
• According to testimony presented at Johansen's preliminary hearing, he had been pointing a gun at partygoers all evening and pretending to shoot them. ...
• According to police, Johansen's mother and father were at home during the party, but they said they were asleep.
• Then, around midnight, Johansen "just walked up behind" Pope, and "put it (the gun) to his head," according to a witness. ...
• Johansen fled after the shooting, but turned himself in a few hours later.
• After the arrest, police discovered that Johansen had three assault rifles, four and a half pounds of marijuana and $3,000 in cash.
• Jacobs said the usual sentence for voluntary manslaughter ranges from three to 11 years, but Johansen's crime was especially "egregious. ...
• Johansen apologized to the Pope family, but Chris Pope and her husband, Scott Pope, said the apology did not appear to be sincere.
• Jacobs agreed that Johansen did not seem to feel any remorse over the shooting.

• Jon Lech Johansen, better known as "DVD Jon", has turned his attention to music. Johansen has developed a source code for copying music and posted it on the Internet. ...
• Johansen became known world wide when he was cleared of piracy charges in January, and the court ruled that Johansen did nothing wrong in bypassing DVD scrambling codes that stopped him using his Linux PC to play back DVDs he had bought. ...
• However, the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit will try for a second time to prove that Johansen broke the law when he developed and distributed a program that copies DVD movies when he was 15 years old. ...
• But the court trial has not scared Johansen. ... Johansen's code allows users of Apple Computer Inc's new iTunes online music store to break digital rights management (DRM) technology that prevents people copying files downloaded from the service. ...

• Help Jon Johansen!.
• As most of you will know already, Jon Johansen is facing charges by the Norwegian government for his efforts on the decryption of DVDs in order to be able to play them on GNU/Linux systems. ...
• As already mentioned in issue #13 of the Brave GNU World I will try to provide some information/links here on how to help Jon Johansen out of these problems.
• Do not flame or mailbomb this man, it will only hurt Jon Johansen on the long run! I'd be extremely upset if I learned that by publishing this address here I caused a flood of mailbombs which alienated the Prime Minister to our cause. ...

•     English version of this page here NETTINFORMASJON OM JON JOHANSEN-SAKEN.
• Høsten 1999 ble sperren som forhindrer «uautorisert» avspilling av DVD-plater knekket av blant andre Jon Lech Johansen («DVD-Jon») for å gjøre det mulig å se DVD-filmer under operativsystemet Linux. ...
• JON JOHANSEN-SAKEN I NORSKE MEDIA .
• JON JOHANSEN-SAKEN I UTENLANDSKE MEDIA .
• 2003-01-07: Jon Johansen Court Decision (Translated into English by Professor Jon Bing) .
• JON JOHANSEN-SAKEN I NORSKE MEDIA.
• 2003-12-04: Dvd-Jon vil skape presedens (Computerworld) “Utfallet av den pågående rettssaken mot Jon Lech Johansen, dvd-Jon, kan skape presedens for mange forbrukere, mener Elektronisk Forpost Norge (EFN). ...
• 2003-12-02: Ny runde for Lech Johansen (NRK Vestfold) .
• 2003-12-02: ― Avgjør DVD-Jon-saken med en gang (Aftenposten) “La dommerne avgjøre om Jon Lech Johansen i det hele tatt har brutt loven som Økokrim har tiltalt ham for å bryte. ...
• 2003-03-07: DVD-Jon i retten igjen (NRK) “Aktoratets anke mot Jon Lech Johansen — “DVD-Jon” — for DVD-kryptering er godtatt og kommer opp i lagsmannsretten. ...
• 2003-03-07: DVD-anke godtatt — Jon Johansen i retten igjen" (IT-avisen) .
• 2003-01-08: Johansen vurderer erstatningskrav — Tapte over 50 000 i PC-utstyr (IT-avisen) .
• 2002-12-10: La ut programmet for å få det testet (Aftenposten) “Jon «DVD-Jon» Lech Johansen forklarte i retten tirsdag at det var for å få testet programmet han hadde laget for å fjerne kopibeskyttelsen på DVD-plater, at han la det ut fritt tilgjengelig på nettet. ...
• 2002-12-09: Nerdene støtter DVD-Jon (Verdens Gang) “Jon Johansen, også kjent som DVD-Jon, hadde et solid nerdekorps i ryggen da han erklærte seg ikke skyldig i tiltalen fra Økokrim mandag morgen. ...
• 2002-12-09: Aktor fikk stavehjelp av DVD-Jon (Verdens Gang) “― Uttales det «dekks» eller «d-e-c-s-s»? spurte førstestatsadvokat Inger Marie Sunde den tiltalte Jon Lech Johansen i Oslo Tinghus i dag. ...
• statsadvokat Inger Marie Sunde da hun innledet straffesaken mot Jon Lech Johansen, også omtalt som DVD-Jon. ...

• Divinity School hires Islamic scholar Baber Johansen.
• Baber Johansen .
• Baber Johansen - one of the world's most eminent scholars of Islamic studies and a leading specialist, in particular, on topics of Muslim law - has accepted a tenured position at Harvard University as professor of Islamic religious studies in the Faculty of Divinity, effective July 1. ...
• "We look forward to Professor Johansen's immediate contribution as we adjust and enhance our curriculum for a new era in the School's life. ...
• Since 1995, Johansen has been on the faculty of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he has worked almost exclusively in seminars with doctoral students. ...
• Johansen is the author of numerous articles and books, most recently "Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh" (Brill), and he has received many honors around the world. ...
• "This appointment gives me the chance to cooperate with some of the leading scholars in fields closely related to Islamic religious studies and to use the resources of what may be the finest Occidental library on Islam," Johansen said. ...

• Peter Johansen High School.
• Peter Johansen High School was opened in the fall of 1992 and currently houses approximately 2882 students in grades 9-12 with a senior class of 600 students. ... Johansen High School also offers a wide variety of student activities. ... The students at Johansen High School have access to computers and a wide range of other educational based technologies. Welcome to Johansen High School and we hope you enjoy our web site.
• API Scores - Johansen Scores Another 10 New High School Boundaries Modesto City Schools.
• Peter Johansen High School.

• The Oslo District Court has acquitted Jon Johansen, the Norwegian teenager accused of writing and distributing over the internet a software program which unlocks copy-protected DVDs. ...
• Johansen was prosecuted following prompting by Norway’s entertainment industry and the Motion Picture Association of America. ...
• Johansen, 19, was 15 when he allegedly co-authored and distributed free of charge a program called DeCSS, which is used to compromise the Content Scramble System (CSS), a copy-protection system found on DVDs, designed to prevent unauthorised duplication of their content. ...
• Johansen claimed he was sent DVD security codes from abroad by other hackers and that he only combined them to create a program enabling him to watch DVDs on his Linux-based computer which, unlike computers running Windows, lacked DVD-viewing software. ...
• The three-member Oslo court, however, found no evidence that Johansen used the decryption code with the intention to contribute to illegal DVD-copying or to help other individuals break the law. ...
• The judges pointed out that Johansen used the code on DVDs he bought legally. ...

• htm | Open DVD Jon Johansen: Outlaw or Hero?.
• Jon Johansen, as Linus Tovalds, is a pinguinista (developer of free software for Linux). ...
• The case had been widely described as a "David vs Goliath" battle, pitting 16-year-old Jon Lech Johansen from a small town south of Oslo against huge corporations and organizations including the Motion Picture Association of America. ...
• Norwegian prosecutors, acting largely on a complaint from the powerful American entertainment industry, had maintained that Johansen acted illegally when he shared his DVD decryption code with others by putting it out on the Internet. ...
• The court ruled there was "no evidence" that either Johansen or others had used the decryption code (called DeCSS) for illegal purposes. Johansen therefore couldn't be convicted on such grounds, nor for acting as an accessory to other alleged illegal activity, wrote judge Irene Sogn in the court's ruling. ...
• In a second, important defeat for the RIAA, and DMCA-defender types, Johansen was acquitted by a Norwegian court. ...

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