Jon Lech Johansen quotes
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“Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.”
-- Jon Lech JohansenSource : "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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“So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.”
-- Jon Lech JohansenSource : "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.
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“I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.”
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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.”
-- Jon Lech JohansenSource : "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.
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“Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.”
-- Jon Lech JohansenSource : "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.
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“Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.”
-- Jon Lech JohansenSource : "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.
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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.”
-- Jon Lech JohansenSource : "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.
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