DVD DeCSS prosecution

From: Tom _-at-_ Abacurial.com
To: emb.ottawa (at) mfa.no
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:03:59 -0500

Ref: 
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/20020110_
eff_pr.html 

Dear Sirs/Mesdames,

I understand Norway has indicted Jon Johansen for programming his Linux 
computer to read DVDs when he was 15 years old. I think this is wrong. He, 
and others, should be able to play his DVDs on whatever machine he can make 
it work on. The DVD region system does not deserve criminal sanctions to 
enforce a marketing ploy that restricts access to any kind of intellectual 
material. 

DVDs are not soap or wheat or iron. They are crystallised ideas. 

They should not be censored.

Sincerely,
Tom Trottier
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