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(Unverified)May 28th 2007 9:28AM
I'm translating an Finnish article (from mikropc.net): Helsinki court decided to release two men, who knocked limits of (finnish) copyright law. Law is against "breaking effective copy protections". Effective equals to at least protection found in DVD.
Webmaster of a encryption-cracking related website and creator of one such program turned themselves in just to test the law. Police took the case under investigation and finally district attorney raised a case against these two men.
Men were released because court didn't see copy protection in DVD-disks "effective enough", because protection was originally cracked in 1999 and decryption programs can be downloaded from internet. According their lawyer Mikko Välimäki from Turre Legal this can be considered "Remarkable decision in whole Europe".
"Technical protection isn't effective anymore when anyone can download a program thet bypasses it from Internet. I interpret this verdict to be independent from technology used.", Välimäki told in their press release.
And now to the delicious part:
Välimäki would generalize this verdict to new hd-dvd and blu-ray-disks. Decryption is legal after someone figures out how to do it. (and releases it to the web)
-greetings from Finland =)