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Notorious Norwegian hacker Jon Johansen has finally been charged with breaking into another's locked property, using his illegal "DeCSS" hacker tool. Johansen's arrest comes after years of pleas from the beleaguered Motion Picture Association of America for the authorities to do something about the wave of property theft caused by Johansen and his Lunix gang members.
The hacker defense fund, the GNU/Electronic Frontier Foundation, has responded with shrill insistence that the films Johansen stole were his "own property", and that he is being persecuted merely for making use of what is rightfully his. This line of propaganda has been dutifully swallowed by such "news" organizations as ZDNet, CNN, and even MSNBC, who seem to understand "property" to be nothing more than the equivalent of "possession". |
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The MPAA represents the Hollywood movie studios behind the finest entertainment created anywhere in the world today. Indeed, the films given us by these American artists are so sought-after that some of the most brilliant minds outside the US have grown wicked and rotten with envy and desire to possess them. Rather than respectfully purchase these movies under the terms offered by their creators, the twisted minds of the world's hackers have grown feverish in their plots to take what isn't theirs, and to do so in the most contemptuous way possible.
While it is the official editorial policy of Adequacy.org to remain neutral in disputes involving intellectual property, we note that terrorist hackers, who have emerged as the main threat to modern civilization in the 21st century, have never created anything original of genuine artistic merit. In contrast, Hollywood has given us for over 75 years the films that define the beauty and truth of our lives. If these hacker terrorists are allowed to bleed the creative arts to death by brazenly appropriating such landmark films as The Nightmare Before Christmas or Amilie. It sends a cold chill through our bodies to envision a future without films of any kind, save perhaps for an inadequate selection of ill-wrought GNU/Films, rent and torn with obvious plot holes, released before they are finished, and limited to nothing but subjects that geeks will work on for free, like masturbatory medieval fantasy, and fighting robots with enormous metal breasts. Jan Johansen faces the trivially light sentence of two years in prison. He will no doubt spend his time in the joint learning new criminal techniques from other hacker terrorists, and be back to give the creative talents of the world another kick in the teeth. Though we take some comfort in knowing this one miscreant will be off the streets for a short time, we have nothing but fear and dread for the future.
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