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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...
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...
...Beware another teenybopper pop hopeful. M2M, a Norwegian duo comprising 15- and 16-year-old Marion Raven and Marit Larsen, were featured on the Pokmon soundtrack alongside Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and 98 Degrees. With the Spice Girls producer behind them in their debut English album, these two girls will feel right at home in the current youth craze. The songs are very girly and cutesy, with lyrics that would fit right into the poetry section of Teen magazine ("Pretty pretty boy I love you"). Out of the 13 songs in the album, approximately 13 sound like the same song...
...cyberspace? A California judge will try to tackle that question next week when the latest potentially groundbreaking cyberspace case hits the chambers. This one's a class-action suit by electronics makers against web sites that enable Internet users to download pirated DVDs. It seems that a bunch of Norwegian hackers developed software that allows people to record DVDs from their ROM drives and transmit them over the Net to anyone with the same software - making it possible to produce an infinite number of copies from a single DVD, all at the original quality...
...film, several critics at the press screening hollered "Neither can we!" and promptly left the theater. Others, however, sat rapt with attention throughout the closing credits. The wildly mixed response to the film is likely because of its unconventionality. As the first American "Dogme 95" film, a Norwegian cinematic movement that calls for the "stripping down of film," donkey-boy was shot using hand-held cameras and without written dialogue or special lighting and sound. Throw in some low-tech visual effects (superimposing, slow motion, etc.), and the result is a visual spectacle unlike anything in the American film tradition...