(Well, okay — the MPAA doesn’t control over an army of evil flying monkeys. Yet.)

Jon Lech Johansen, a Norwegian 15 year old, wanted to watch a DVD on his Linux box. He put together some CSS-cracking code that others had developed to create DeCSS. Three years later, the MPAA — the last “A” is for “America”, I thought — has insisted that Norwegian prosecutors file charges. And they are. | Wired story