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![]() Lessig Blog writes about the wisdom in norway: In a second, important defeat for the RIAA, and DMCA-defender types, Johansen was acquitted by a Norwegian court. And as the EFF is nicely publicizing, the principles on which this court in Norway decided the case might be familiar to those who remember our own constitutional tradition. As the chief judge said in reading the verdict, "no one could be convicted of breaking into their own property" and "consumers have rights to legally obtained DVD films 'even if the films are played in a different way than the makers had foreseen." The freedom to tinker in Norway is real. So too should it be so here.
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![]() Microsoft Moves to Strengthen Its Position in Digital Media: "In a bid to secure a central place for itself in the new gadgets that are increasingly the preferred platform for digital media, Microsoft said yesterday that it would license its Windows Media technology to consumer electronics makers..." [Google Technology News]
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