DVD Jon's DoubleTwist Unlocks the iPod

An anonymous reader writes, "On the 5-year anniversary of the iPod, Fortune Magazine has an article called Unlocking the iPod about Jon Lech Johansen's new venture. Slashdot briefly covered DoubleTwist earlier this month, and those of you who complained that he was not enabling iPod competitors to play FairPlay files will be happy to learn that according to the Fortune article he will also be going after the hardware market." From the article: "As [Johansen] and Farantzos explain DoubleTwist in a conference room they share with several other companies, he points to a sheet of printer paper tacked on the wall that has a typed quote Jobs gave the Wall Street Journal in 2002: 'If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.' As Johansen sees it, Jobs didn't follow through on this promise, so it's up to him to fix the system... Johansen has written [two] programs...: one that would let other companies sell copy-protected songs that play on the iPod, and another that would let other devices play iTunes songs."

Comments

It's called 'freedom'

[Tumbleweed]

Good thing we don't base our lives around things said in the Constitution in the 1700s, eh?

Re:DMCA

[MobyDisk]

I think it would be funny if his inventions couldn't be sold in the US, but could be sold everywhere else. Maybe Kim Jong II would wear one, smug in his knowledge that the device is illegal in the US.

Re:DMCA

[JonTurner]

He's now living/working in the US.

Funny, I've never seen "imprisoned" spelled with a slash.

Re:iTunes is the real concern..

[Mike89]

This is your fault for not reading the terms of service

Heh, that's funny, because when it's Microsoft putting something shady in THEIR EULA, it's their fault. Not ours.

Oh, how quickly the tables turn for Apple.

Love is the real concern..

[Teun]

I bought some CD's from Best Buy a while ago.
OK.

I lost them when I loved,
Can you talk about it in public?

So what did I do?
Please tell us all about it!

Re:DMCA

[soft_guy]

Since his inventions have been software, I think I would pass on seeing Kim Jong Il wearing one. Emporer's New Clothes and all that.

But you are missing the rest of the quote!

[eaddict]

'If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.'....
'but the other devices you own will all be iPods.'

Sort of the Henry Ford line of thinking:
"You can have any color Model T you want ... as long as you want black."

Re:DMCA

[blugu64]

Crap I just realized that I spend way to much time on /. when I read an acronym and instinctively know the meaning.

You and you.

[HTH NE1]

'If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.'

Thing is, lost in the transcription is that Jobs was talking to two people. To clarify:

"If you [the consumer] legally acquire music, you [the copyright holder] need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you [the consumer] own."

Re:DMCA

[jbrader]

No way man patents are evil. And I demand you refer to me as GNU/jbrader from this point forward.

mixing metaphors like there's no tomorrow

[commodoresloat]

Great news, this will only makes the iPod stronger!

So what you're saying is, this is not an "iPod killer"?

Re:DMCA

[commodoresloat]

He's currently living in the US though (in San Francisco, according to Wikipedia), so it could very quickly apply to him.

Easily fixed. Edit his entry on Wikipedia; have him living in Ingolstadt or something. Then the DMCA won't apply to him!

Re:DMCA

[jZnat]

Okay, I see your argument for piracy; what about for iTS music?