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On 12 December, the occupation of start goes Grant Johansen, author of the Linux-program DeCSS against the acquittal of the hacker. The movie industry remains prey on a condemnation, for with DeCSS became the possible the protection on dvd-movies to remove.

Meanwhile there are all talloze comparable applications, but for the studios, one appears principle question. In January, the accusers lost decided innocently was the first round, when a judge that the programmer at the to burden gelegde facts.

Johanssen - meanwhile known as DVD-Grant - avoids the controversy not, for in the meantime is he begun cracking of the digital right management (DRM) on the music truce that via iTunes Music want to become sold. Temporarily Apple do not reacts, but there probable change comes would bring out in as someone a suitable application.

The DeCSS-programmer will argue during the occupation again its innocence. It is difficult to predict how the trial will end, for this turn is the complaint against Johansen differently than in January 2003. When became he absurdly enough accused of computer burglary on dvd-disks that he self had bought. Because the right that reasoning of the public prosecutor followed, becomes not now the charge otherwise formulated to accuse Johansen by law violation by the removing of the encryption on DVD.

Dvd-movies are protected by an encryptionlaag, CSS named. Problematically for the public prosecutor is that DeCSS only this protection removed, but that about it yet always someone else application necessary is the movie self to copy. Johansen says that DeCSS designed became the playing of dvd-movies under Linux possible to make. When he the program wrote existed there yet no dvd-player for the open source-operating system.