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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?
So, DVD Jon is going into business to *sell* DRM?! And possibly at the expense of Apple?
That sound your just heard is thousands of Slashdotter heads asploding.
The drama abounds... Who will Apple sue first? Will anyone be brave enough to buy a third-party implementation of FairPlay? Will Apple try to thwart this by monkeying with FairPlay to cause compatibility problems, leading to a game of cat and mouse?
Insisting on "correct" English is like saying that there is only one, definitive recipe for chili.
C&D Letter in 3..2..1...
Apple will snarl and bite yet another hand. Anyone that thinks Apple is consumer friendly is an idiot.
They'll do more than snarl and bite. I just saw a bunch of sinister looking stealth UAV's loaded to capacity with Norvegian-nerd-seeking lawyer-missiles and Apple logos painted on their wings jetting off from our local Air Force base. They were heading in the direction of San Francisco.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
damn my master card...
My 0.02 cents
Is it just me, or does "DVD Jon" look A LOT like Bill Gates? I mean... whoa, freaky, eh?!
how is babby formed?
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
San Fransisco has been part of scandinavia for some years now! It is one of the United America's of Scandinavia (UAS).
Stupid! As if there is no law and order in Scandinavian countries! On the contrary, it's USA which has law and order which can't even be compared to Iraq under the despotic rule and it is these leviathan corporations which threaten creativity and freedom and not any companies from those rogue nations[as branded by US' dictators and propaganda machines(aka mainstream media)]!
Apple seems to be fast replacing Microsoft to be the witchhunting monopolist behemoth.