Another reason to love the USA. Jon Lech Johansen of Norway faced criminal charges regarding his DeCSS DVD decryption software. The Norwegian court acquitted Johansen on the grounds that he had not used the DeCSS code to pirate DVDs, rather than to simply play DVDs on a Linux or Unix platform.

Norwegian prosecutors are appealing the acquittal, in the hopes of getting a conviction the second time around. In the U.S. it is called 'double jeopardy' and is unconstitutional. In socialist Europe, it's just a matter of fact part of the process. Prosecutors just keep trying until they finally get a conviction.