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DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer

Posted by kdawson on from the copy-with-abandon dept.

Firmafest writes to let us know that 'DVD Jon' Lech Johansen's company has released an open beta of DoubleTwist, a desktop application that allows the user to copy media to any device. There's a Facebook app too. The software is available for download at Doubletwistventures.com. Currently only Windows is supported, but a Macintosh version is on the way.

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  1. DoubleTwist by Otter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The name DoubleTwist has been used for a decade by a bioinformatics company (where it makes a lot more sense), but Johansen seems to have gotten the doubletwist.com domain away from them. I guess that given his manifest concern for intellectual property rights, it was obvious that he'd have gotten his legal ducks in a row.

    (Trying to find a link, I see this old NYT story about how they discovered 105,000 of the 20,000 human genes we have today. Those were the days, huh?)

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