![]() Johansen doesn’t think what he’s doing is illegal he’s adding DRM rather than breaking it. Jobs apparently warned that while Apple was not a litigious company, other tech firms might not take kindly to whatever DVD Jon might be up to. has a lot of chutzpah, and related the story of how he emailed Steve Jobs and set up a lunch meeting in January.Johansen and Farantzos went down to Cupertino for an audience with King Jobs. They haven’t raised any outside money because they have already found at least one (undisclosed) paying customer. is Johansen’s first major attempt at commercializing his hacking. This may not be good news for iTunes the store, but it could make the iPod even more popular.ĭoubleTwist Ventures. Instead of breaking the DRM (something he’s already done), Jon has replicated it, and wants to license the technology to companies that want their content (music, movies, whatever) to play on Apple devices. He has reverse-engineered Apple’s Fairplay and is starting to license it to companies who want their media to play on Apple’s devices. DVD Jon has a new target in his sights, and it’s a big piece of fruit. ![]() Jon Lech Johansen became famous for hacking encrypted DVDs so they would play in Linux when he was 15, making him the target of criminal charges for which he was eventually acquitted. Not to mention the pilot episode of The Coded Smorgasbord. Reverse engineer this! It's IT Blogwatch, in which "DVD Jon" turns his sights on Apple.
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