 DeCSS haiku was created in the context of a series of protests, coming from the international hacker community, against the arrest of Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, and a series of related lawsuits against him and other hackers (such as "Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes" and "DVD Copy Control Association, Inc. v. Bunner").Johansen, a Norwegian teenage programmer, was one of the creators of the freely distributed DeCSS software which can be used to bypass DVD encryption, preventing even legally-acquired DVDs on running on unauthorized computers (which at that time included all Linux machines).Johansen and others who reposted the code, including the hacker "" magazine, were sued by the entertainment industry for revealing a trade secret and facilitating illegal copying and distribution of content on said DVDs.