Norway Teen Cleared in DVD Case, The court said Jon Johansen, had not broken the law when he helped unlock a code and distribute a computer program enabling unauthorized copying of DVD movies (DeCSS).

It should be noted that the story above along with almost all others ignores the fact that DeCSS is not required to copy DVD movies. An exact copy can be made without the use of DeCSS. DeCSS only real use was to make DVD content viewable on non-licenced DVD players, a major concern of the Linux community. At the time of its creation there were no DVD players licenced for use under Linux. The reason for this was most likely the small market for creating player coupled with the high cost of licencing the DVD decryption algorithms.