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
using
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
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.
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.
companies consumers law legal prevent
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
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.