Occupation: Programmer Birth: November 18, 1983
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal..
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 softwar….
I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it..
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 b….
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment..
So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available..
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail..
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it..
I don't like closed systems..
I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life..
All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that..