Jon Lech Johansen quotes:
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Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
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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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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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I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
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I don't like closed systems.
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Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
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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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All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
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So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
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I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.
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Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.