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"DVD Jon" Reverse Engineers FairPlay
breun writes to bring us up to date on the doings of Jon Lech Johansen, known as "DVD Jon" after he cracked CSS encryption at the age of 15. As reported by GigaOM's Liz Gannes, Johansen has now reverse-engineered Apple's FairPlay DRM — but not to crack it. Instead Johansen's company, DoubleTwist Ventures, wants to license the tech to media companies shut out by Apple from playing their content on the iPod. And, soon, on the iTV. Johansen could end up selling a lot of hardware for Apple.
Why do I have the feeling that somebody is going to turn out like Dmitry Sklyarov?
Because you're an unfortunate idiot?
He's not living in USA-Naziland, you fucking moron. Freedom is still available in some countries, contrary to what your Führer George Bush is trying to tell you.
Plus Sweden couldn't possibly handle the worlds immigration like America has and could never handle world events especially their georgraphic location and size. No offense but their country is just not located in a prime zone of immigration; it is maybe a stopover till wanting to come to America just look at the facts and numbers.
no, no. despite your ugly attempt at sarcasm, he's right. you are a very ugly fatso with an even uglier wife. very unfortunate for you that jay leno's chin took over your entire face, but being a fatass is only a fault of your own. what's great is since your wife is fucking ugly too, your kids will also be fucking ugly. they will have to settle for an ugly partner and produce some ugly grandchildren. your whole lineage is pretty much guaranteed to be composed of nature's mistakes. Now, I guess once surgery gets advanced enough, one of your children could get that ugly head trimmed down to normal size and score a decent-looking floozy. But, as proven by your bad luck of being born so ugly, the kids will also be ugly. you see, the floozy was ugly too, until she got surgery to get rid of her stretched-out head. in fact, she will be his sister, but after the surgery they won't recognize each other and give you some recessive flipper grandkids. Damn, it sucks to be you.
now get me some salsa made from ugly-ripe tomatoes. On the vine bitch. None of that plastic-wrapped shit.
The irony is, this is specifically allowed within the terms of the DMCA. Of course, if they (Apple) can enforce their Patent(s) on the software/tech, then Jon's company could suffer serious losses, if they do any business in the USA... Hurray for some foresight in Europe re: software patents...
Don't get mewrong, I'm happy to be a U.S. citizen, but some things have gone too far, and iirc DMCA was innacted under Clinton, not Bush.
Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info