Jon Lech Johansen quotes

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it. (Jon Lech Johansen)
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that. View quote
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Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal. View quote
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Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. View quote
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I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life. View quote
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I don't like closed systems. View quote
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So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available. View quote
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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. View quote
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Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. View quote
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Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it. View quote
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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. (Jon Lech Johansen)
I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part. View quote
Jon Lech Johansen

Jon Lech Johansen

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Photo: de:Cory Doctorow, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: Norwegian Celebrity
Born: November 18, 1983
Quotes count: 12