Jon Lech Johansen: reverse engineering wizard

Nicknamed “DVD Jon”, infamous for coauthoring DeCSS, which decodes the content-scrambling system used for DVD licensing enforcement.

In October 2006, Johansen and DoubleTwist Ventures announced they had reverse engineered Apple Computer’s DRM for iTunes, called FairPlay. Rather than allow people to strip the DRM, DoubleTwist would license the ability to apply FairPlay to media companies who wanted their music and videos to play on the iPod, without having to sign a distribution contract with Apple.

His blog is entitled “So Sue Me”.

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Written by pinolobu on October 29th, 2006 with no comments.
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