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"DVD Jon" Reverse Engineers FairPlay

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 2, 2006 @07:02AM from the double-twist-of-fate dept.

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.

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First POST by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-02 07:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FP

POST.....^H^H^H^H
CSS Encryption... by __aaclcg7560 · 2006-10-02 07:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I didn't know Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) supports encryption?! It's good to know that my website is now secured. :P
cocEk by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-02 07:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

it will be among out of bus1ness OF AMERICA) today,
iPod Icon by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-02 08:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Can we please update the iPod icon?
Re:*sniff*.. *sniff*. by Gli7ch · 2006-10-02 11:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

An Ellipsis has: Three dots!