Jon Lech Johansen Quotes

• I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

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  Play, Able, Way

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• I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

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  Cds, Whole Life, Ten

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• Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

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  Littles, Computer, Equipment

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• I don't like closed systems.

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• Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Engineering, Community, Failing

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

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  Law, Use, Company

  "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.

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• Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

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  Engineering, Intention, Bother

  "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.

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• All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

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  Rights, Trying, World

  "Victory in court for the DVD code-breaker" by Robert Uhlig, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 9, 2003.

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• So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

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  Introducing, Available

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

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  Engineering, Years, Apples

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• I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

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  Jobs, Hands, Stuff

  "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.

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