All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
From Jon Johansen
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.
I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
We knew that they would probably go after someone.
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.
So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
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