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...Baber Johansen, a renowned professor of Islamic studies and expert on muslim law, has accepted a position as Professor of Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School...

Author: By Steven A. Mcdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HDS Hires Islamic Studies Prof | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...cover file sharing. Enforcing those laws is also tricky. Colleges, where a lot of the downloading goes on, like to think of themselves as bastions of privacy and free speech, not copyright police. The international reach of the Internet makes enforcement even dodgier. Case in point: in 1999 Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager, figured out how to break the copy protection on commercial DVDs, making possible the cheap, high-quality, a la carte copying of movies. This information became, shall we say, fairly popular on the Internet, earning Johansen, who was 15 at the time, the nickname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All Free! | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...raid on Jan. 23, 2000, was nothing like the movies - no guns, no sirens, no man on a megaphone telling Jon Johansen, 16, to come out with his hands up. "It was very nice and quiet," Johansen says, recalling the day when three officers - two from ?kokrim, Norway's economic-crime investigation unit, and one local policeman - visited his house in Steinsholt, a small town about an hour and a half southwest of Oslo. They went into his basement office and confiscated two computers, some data CDs, a cell phone and its charger. What had Johansen done? He'd just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enemy At The Gates? | 6/16/2002 | See Source »

Last, but by no means least, these cases show a disturbing trend among corporations that market to young people who are suing, punishing and bullying their own customer base. A Norwegian 16-year-old, Jon Johansen, is under criminal prosecution in Norway, at the behest of American movie studios, for releasing a program that helps to play DVD movies on non-Windows computers, but could also theoretically be used to make unauthorized copies of those DVDs. The Recording Industry Association of America is suing to prohibit distribution of Napster, a program for sharing MP3 music files used by hundreds...

Author: By Eben Moglen, | Title: Cyberpatrol Curbs Speech | 4/25/2000 | See Source »

DeCSS gained worldwide attention on Jan. 24, when 16-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, one of the program's three creators, was detained for questioning by Norwegian officials and charged with violating copyright...

Author: By Robin S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Targeted for Posting DVD Software on FAS Website | 4/12/2000 | See Source »

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