DVD Jon Goes Back to Trial

I just received a press release from Robin Gross of IPJustice that Jon Johansen is being retried in Norway. Prosecutors appealed his acquital by a lower court, and the appeals court found problems with the application of the law and presentation of evidence. The new trial starts this summer.

In her press release, Gross notes: "Brought under Norwegian criminal code section 145.2, which outlaws bypassing technological controls to access data one is not entitled to access, the charge carries a penalty of two years in prison. This case marks the first time this law is used to prosecute a person for accessing his own property. In the past, this data theft law outlawed accessing another person�s bank or phone records, or other data that one has no lawful right to access."