SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT v PAUL OWEN & ORS (2002)

[Martin Keegan]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Donald ramsbottom wrote:

> A case from Lawtel on copy circumvention. As alaways ignore if you don't
> like law. I am trying to get the full transcript as this precis does not
> make it clear what the position of decrypting rather than copy
> circumvention is. If I get it I'll post it.

I was in the courtroom when this lot was going down - the case wouldn't
have clarified the position of decrypting vis-a-vis circumvention is.

Any transcript (I recall the counsel for the plaintiff requested one, so
you may be able to get a transcript off Sony) would be greatly appreciated
here, too, especially if it contained Jacobs J 's "you have no anti-trust
defence whatsoever, do you?" rebuke to Sony before the defence could get
a word in.

Mk