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- With DeCSS behind him, "DVD Jon" turns his attention to Apple's Fairplay
- Robert Levine of Fortune reports:When he was 15, [Jon Lech] Johansen got frustrated when his DVDs didnt work the way he wanted them to. "I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it," that is, on a PC that ran...
- Tags: Apples, Johansen, DoubleTwist
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Johansen pleads not guilty in DVD appeals case
- Johansen pleads not guilty in DVD appeals caseReverse Engeeniering"The industry hopes to send a message to hackers that it will fight on any turf those who crack into their copy-protection systems in a global crackdown on piracy."The industry can fight in other countries, but in the USA reverse engeeniering IS...
- Tags: Digital media, MPAA, DeCSS, DVD, Johansen
- Discussion threads 2003-12-02
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- Today's gonna be a rough day for Apple's PR department
- If I was working over at Apple's PR department, I think I'd call in sick today. In fact, I think I'd fake something really serious like Ebola or bird flu and try to get the week off, because the brown stuff has hit the fan head on over the bricked iPhones and cleaning up...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- iPhone Diary Day 8: A hacker's handbook
- Besides gadget freaks, the other big group clamoring for the iPhone has been hackers. Since the Apple TV was hacked so easily it has given hackers an extra incentive to take a shot at opening iPhone's closed fortress.Here's a quick rundown of the hacks currently underway for iPhone:iPhone firmware postedIf...
- Tags: Hack, iPhone, iPhone Diary
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- News to Know: AMD benchmarks, iPhone hacking, SAP's new day
- NEWS TO KNOW on a slow news dayGeorge Ou: AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on BarcelonaJon Lech Johansen: iPhone Independence DayAdrian Kingsley-Hughes: Let your iPhone run wild and free … free of AT&T that isPhoto Gallery: Cracking open the iPhone...and putting it back together againGigaOm: Why AT&T should offer free...
- Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, News to know, Microsoft, iPhone, Google, General, eBay, Craigslist, Apple, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- iPhone - Beyond the iHype
- Here's pretty much everything you need to know about the iPhone launch ... Out of a batch of 3 million units, an estimated 500,000 - 700,000 have been sold. Polls seem to suggest that people are going for the 8GB version over the 4GB. The main problem early adopters seemed to have had...
- Tags: Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- Let your iPhone run wild and free ... free of AT&T that is
- Jon Lech Johansen (aka "DVD Jon") has done it again. Once again he's sticking it to the man and come up with a way to activate an iPhone without having to sign up with AT&T.I've found a way to activate a brand new unactivated iPhone without giving any of your...
- Tags: Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- The beginning of the end of DRM?
- In what will certainly be remembered as a watershed moment in the world of technology, Steve Jobs Tuesday posted his thoughts on DRM and claimed that abolishing DRM forever "the best alternative for consumers" and that Apple would "embrace it in a heartbeat." Big thinking from the CEO of the...
- Tags: iPod, iTunes, DRM, Steve Jobs, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- 'DVD Jon' joins another maverick
- 'DVD Jon' joins another maverick'DVD Jon' joins another maverickAnother case of how our jobs are being outsource overseas :pThis is great!! More progress on disbanding the music industry.We need to put the control back with the artists. When that happens, there will be more music available at lower prices, and...
- Tags: Digital media, DVD-Jon, maverick, CD, music industry, Jon Johansen
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- EFF's John Gilmore responds to my DRM nightmare post
- In response to a DRM nightmare blog post about why my $20,000 worth of audiophile gear can't play the 99 cent songs I'm buying, Electronic Frontier Foundation founder and board member John Gilmore sent the following e-mail which basically says that this DRM nightmare is going to get worse and...
- Tags: digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2005-09-23
- Google gets an open source nip from DVD Jon
- We were talking the other day about how, when a company opens its code up to enhancement by others it needs to be prepared for the Law of Unintended Consequences.Well you might designate this as Prosecution Exhibit B. It seems that when Google launched its new video search service it...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-06-30
- Microsoft's Portable Media Centers: a strong monoculture headstart
- Microsoft's Portable Media Centers: a strong monoculture headstartHuh? Nobody is buying PMC's.Who is buying these things? There is no way to easily get content to them. Ie: you can't rip your DVD's. You can't use anything buy WMV on them (hint: most movies on the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, Digital video, Digital music, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, Archos, Apple Inc., music label, DVD, video
- Discussion threads 2005-05-06
- 'DVD Jon' reopens iTunes back door
- 'DVD Jon' reopens iTunes back doorThis is what I hear from the hackers...BOO HOO HOO, we are tired of Apple being the dominate force in the portable music industry. We want Dell and Sony to win. BOO HOO HOO, we want Real Player to play AAC format. BOO HOO HOO!...
- Tags: Linux, Consumer electronics, Digital media, Digital music, UNIX, arguement, Boo-hoo-hoo, DVD, DVD-Jon, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2005-03-22
- Apple disables iTunes hack
- Apple disables iTunes hackJust like escorting a inline skater out your doorStill I'd not say this is closing a security hole. Isn't this just changing how the system works. You know like they do with the Instant Messengers all the time. So one day alternative program X works then the...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Digital rights management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, DVD, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., advertisement, software
- Discussion threads 2005-03-21
- Will DVD acquittal mean tougher copyright laws?
- Will DVD acquittal mean tougher copyright laws?pffftthis is gettign stupid.. All beware the printing press. Adapt or die, dont change the environment Laws though.. as that will speed your extinction. Adapt or die. Thats how it has to be.. Limiting what users can do only makes them more likely to...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Consumer electronics, Digital media, Broadcast TV, DVD acquittal, DMCA, DVD, copyright law, acquittal, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2003-12-24
- Norwegian DVD piracy retrial ends
- Norwegian DVD piracy retrial endsLocal citizens need to file suit against Hollywoodwhile they're "in town", just to send the messege that big corporations are well received on this and the courts need to send them that messege. Then let Hollywood appeal consumers hatred. MPAA, join the RIAA in...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital media, DVD industry, DVD, DeCSS, MPAA
- Discussion threads 2003-12-12
- Hollywood: Norwegian hacker a burgler
- Hollywood: Norwegian hacker a burglerIf they're going to take the "trade secret" routeThen they're in serious trouble. Reverse engineering is a completely legal way to divine trade secrets.The fact is that the "keys" that Hollywood is blathering about were at best hidden under a fake rock by the front...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, reverse engineering, trade secret, Amerikan, Linux
- Discussion threads 2003-12-05
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