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

Re:iTunes is the real concern..

[CrackedButter]

If you broke or lost a music cd is it the music stores fault? Do they have to provide a replacement for you?

Re:DMCA

[dr.badass]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the limiting of consumers' ability to listen, in private, to what they've legally acquired on whatever device they choose a violiation of the copyright act?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: That's not even what's going on.

Sarcastic answer: I have a boatload of vinyl records that I can't play on my CD player because those evil record companies are limiting my ability to listen to them on whatever device I choose. I suppose I could just connect my turntable to the computer, copy the records, and burn some CDs, but that's clearly an unacceptable loss of quality, and then I wouldn't have anything to complain about on Slashdot.