Jon Johansen
Jon Johansen
Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer famous for his work on reverse engineering data formats...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth18 November 1983
CountryNorway
cds life
I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.
I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
based heard tool work
I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.
relay
I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.
doomed reverse source
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
using
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
We knew that they would probably go after someone.
job jobs niche products took work
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.
biggest brought looked norwegian regarded since
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
cannot trying
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
anyone bit computer copied experience
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.
companies consumers law legal prevent
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
introduce
So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
bit code german seems written
I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.