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DVD Jon's DoubleTwist Unlocks the iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-good-on-steve's-promise dept.

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."

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  1. It's called 'freedom' by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  2. Re:DMCA by MobyDisk · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:DMCA by JonTurner · · Score: 4, Funny
    He's now living/working in the US.


    Funny, I've never seen "imprisoned" spelled with a slash.
  4. Re:iTunes is the real concern.. by Mike89 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.
  5. Re:DMCA by soft_guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. mixing metaphors like there's no tomorrow by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny
    Great news, this will only makes the iPod stronger!
    So what you're saying is, this is not an "iPod killer"?
  7. Re:DMCA by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!