Mary Hodder reports that Jon Johansen, or "DVD-John," the creator of decryption tool DeCSS, was acquitted in a copyright case in Norway. Johansen was only 15 years old when he wrote DeCSS, which he claims he wrote so that he could play DVDs using Linux. DeCSS also, however, enabled the copying of DVDs, as it broke the copy protection on the DVD (Hodder says that "the [Norwegian] court also took into consideration the fact that DVDs are easy to damage and so backing them up is also a consumer right." Good for Norway! Maybe I'll go there and hang with Torill and Jill.). More on the case at Openlaw.