A Norweigan court has decided unanimously that Jon Johansen, a programmer that developed the DeCSS software used to decrypt DVD codes, is not guilty of DVD piracy charges. Johansen argued that he had written the code to descramble DVDs he purchased legally in order to watch them on a Linux computer, a system for which no decryption software had been written. The prosecution, motivated by the motion picture industry's claims that DeCSS is illegal, will appeal the ruling.
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