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
companies consumers law legal prevent
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
cds life
I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.
doomed reverse source
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
introduce
So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
relay
I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.
using
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering 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.