DVD-Jon Breaks iTunes Encryption For Linux Users

McGruff writes "The Register has a story regarding DVD-Jon's new hobby, iTunes DRM. According to the story DRMed iTunes AAC files can now be played under Linux via VidioLAN Client thanks to some handywork by Jon. '"When you run the VideoLAN Client under Windows it will write the user key to a file. The user key is system independent and can thus be used by the GNU/Linux version of VLC," he explains.' Personally, this just means I will buy even more iTunes." (We mentioned in November Johansen's efforts to negate the iTunes restrictions on Windows.)

Comments

Re:What does this guy do for a living?

[D.A. Zollinger]

He was 15 when he broke the DVD encryption and now he is still only around 19. He doesn't need to work for a living yet.

That is going to be one hell of a resume when he finally decides to get a job. I can see it now:

Boss: Hello everyone, I would like to introduce you to our new intern Jon. When he was 15, Jon wrote a program that allowed him to watch DVDs on Linux, and when he was 20 he wrote a program that allowed him to listen to music downloaded from Apple's iTunes on Linux.
Jon: Hi!
Boss: Too bad none of you slackers have ever done anything worth mentioning.
Mike who sits next to the copier: I've done something important!
Boss: Oh yea? What's that?
Mike who sits next to the copier: I've replaced the toner when the copier ran out. Paper too!
Boss: (muttering) Someone in HR hates me. I just know it.

Re:How long...

[nemesisj]

I guess so on the speaker definition. When I meant medium quality, I meant around $2-300 speakers.

I was using LAME and a couple of other encoders that I can't remember off the top of my head to encode things for tests.