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15 quotes by Jon Johansen

Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983 in Harstad, Norway), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer famous for his work on reverse engineering data formats. He is most famous for his involvement in the release of the DeCSS software, which decodes the content-scrambling system used for DVD licensing enforcement. Jon is a self-trained software engineer, who quit high school during his first year to spend more time with the DeCSS case....
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I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

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All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

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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... →

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Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

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Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

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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... →

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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... →

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Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.

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Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

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I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.

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I don't like closed systems.

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I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

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So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

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