Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

- Jon Lech Johansen

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

- Jon Lech Johansen

I don't like closed systems.

- Jon Lech Johansen

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

- Jon Lech Johansen

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

- Jon Lech Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

- Jon Lech Johansen

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…

- Jon Lech Johansen

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…

- Jon Lech Johansen

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

- Jon Lech Johansen